--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "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." > Exactly, and that is the other side so to speak of the experience of Brahman, the non-dual Reality infusing Everything, and on the other side, literally *Everything*.
The *Everything* is now found in the context of the non-dual Reality. So a perfect choice now exists: on the one hand, enjoy the non-dual state while engaging in infinitely diverse activity, OR enjoy primarily one of an infinite set of activities, infused with the non-dual state. No contradiction, whether focused on the One shining on the Many, or the Many infused with the One. The Key is mastering the perfect coordination between the One and the Many, so that a greater coordinated, infinitely random Reality is achieved, always changing, yet always Perfection. Experientially, this leads to a more self-sufficient existence, allowing us to, as you said, push wheelbarrows in Hell, while whistling. Every experience, every action is perfectly carried out, due to the seamless coordination between the One and the Many. ------------------------ 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/
