--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" > > <jpgillam@> wrote: > > > > > > We've had a half-dozen contributors to this list > > > who profess to be functioning from Brahman. > > > I've read that the larger Fairfield community has > > > a dozen or so who've awakened. MUM says it's > > > doing research on a dozen or so people in CC. > > > I get the impression that "seven lifetimes" stuff > > > may apply to some of us, but it's likely an old > > > rule that no longer applies. > > > > It also is a "rule" that shows a remarkable > > ignorance of Eastern thought. Within many > > Asian traditions, it is considered a given > > that one has to have logged *tens of thousands* > > of incarnations, many of them human, just to > > get to the point where one is attracted to > > spiritual practice. > > I was under the impression that the clock on the > "seven lifetimes" rule Patrick is referring to > started ticking *at* the point where one is > attracted to spiritual practice. > > In other words, once you start the practice, it > takes seven lifetimes to become enlightened. So > it only comes into effect *after* the lifetimes > in the rule you cite have taken place. Tens of > thousands of incarnations to get to the point > where one is attracted to spiritual practice, > seven lifetimes thereafter to become realized. > The 'rule' if that is in fact what it is, also works if we transcend our way through the 7 states of consciousness, seeing each one as a lifetime. Then it only takes one lifetime.
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