--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Thanks for giving me something to think about... > > Thats nice
Well, actually, it's gotten me thinking about which, if any, of the teachings and interactions I've had with spiritual teachers or teachings in the past I still feel were productive, in the sense that they enabled realization. On first examination, I can find only one -- the live, in-person interaction with "places of power." That was transformative, whether the power place in ques- tion was a fixed geographical one or a "movable" power place, in the form of a person who was more advanced in some way than myself. In both cases, the experience of interacting with them and being in an energy field that was "firing on more cylinders" than I was at the time, always opened me to the possibility that *I* could "fire on more cylinders." I never think of such inter- actions with teachers in terms of darshan or transmission; it's not as if they were really *doing* anything. All that was necessary was to be in their presence and then "recognition" took over. In them I could *recognize* attributes of myself that I was not using, and they were. Same with some of the geographical power places. In contrast, I can think of very few bits of dogma or intellectual knowledge that ever did me much good, or that "lasted" very long before I ran into the limitations of believing them. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
