--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- jim_flanegin wrote: > > > > --- Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > Seems to me that enlightenment is a matter of seeing > > > things clearly. It doesn't mean you're Superman. > > > > > That's as good and elegant a definition as I've heard-- seeing things > > clearly. Plain and simple. > > To bring up Suzanne Segal again, that's an admonition she > hammered toward the end of her book -- "seeing things > as they really are." But she never elaborated on it. > > Sometimes I think the work of Byron Katie is geared toward > seeing things as they really are, unencumbered by > preconceptions or fears. Maybe that's one explanation. > Yes, Byron Katie's method of enquiry is really useful in unraveling stories stored in the mind. Clutter.
And yes, the experience of the mind after awakening is like always starting with a clean slate, moment by moment, seeing anything in utter simplicity and utter profundity. Preconceptions are just there out of habit or due to fear. Without them, the world appears as it truly is, far deeper and more beautiful than we used to think it was. Much more becomes available, simply by placing the attention on it. No doubt sidhis and such powers are more easily expressed in such a state, but oddly enough, living a non-dual reality, where we are no longer always trying to *get* something or somewhere else, there is little desire to cultivate such things. Unless they arise in the course of daily life as being useful. Like my boss who had really bad hiccups awhile ago. I absorbed them by focusing on my throat (epiglotis actually), and they went away for him. Then recently, without knowing what I'd done, he gave me a much larger raise than what I was seeking. But I didn't do it for the raise. I did it because I felt sorry for him. And I have found that when the need is genuine, such things that can't be explained by people in darkness are readily available, depending on one's natural inclinations. Just one tiny example of how easy and simple and real the world becomes once we are awake. And how it begins to operate completely differently than what we thought before, caught up in all our stories and illusions and preconceptions. And at the same time, it is far more real, far more simple, and far more natural and gratifying than it ever was before. Thanks for your comments. ------------------------ 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/
