--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > Thanks [to Vaj] - I really enjoy all of these different > > perspectives on Brahman. I appreciate the emphasis here > > to integrate what we are here and now, that we won't > > somehow be someone else when we permanently realize Big > > Mind, as the author calls it. > > And in fact, we probably can't ever realize Big Mind > *without* being ourselves, and being comfortable with > that. > > > This is the process as I experience it; to over time > > integrate every experience of ours, rid ourselves of > > all experiential awkwardness with our Selves, until > > all experience and all states of mind are experienced > > without losing our natural non-dual state....Then, and > > only then, the FUN begins! > > OR, losing our natural non-dual state, and being > comfortable with *that*, too. The universe is not > necessarily as hierarchical as the Hindu system > likes to portray it. There are all these states of > consciousness, or the 10,000 states of mind in > Buddhism, but they're *all* possibly *just* states > of mind, all coexisting peacefully, *all* perfect > from some point of view, none of them "higher" than > another. And *all* of them are potentially FUN, if > you're just weird enough. > > One of my favorite cartoons shows a guy in Hell, > pushing a wheelbarrow full of rocks, eternally. > There are flames and devils everywhere. The heat > is palpable; the guy pushing the wheelbarrow is > sweating buckets. But he's also smiling, and has > this enormous shit-eating grin on his face, and > he's whistling. Two of the devils in the back- > ground are talking, one of them saying to the > other, "We've got to watch this guy...he's got > a bad attitude." >
Hey B, I noticed this notice about the Big Mind DVD: "The Production of the Big Mind DVD was made possible by a grant from the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism." ;-) JohnY ------------------------ 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/
