--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I guess that's another question: Did he or didn't > he know how tough it was going to be? > > And if he didn't, was it because the state of > enlightenment makes everything seem easy and simple > *when it really isn't*? Is it possible that the > "easy and simple" sense applies on some level other > than the practical one of achieving a goal, but > that the person who is enlightened may incorrectly > think it applies to achieving the goal? > > *Action* in enlightenment is presumably effortless, > in other words, but that doesn't necessarily mean > that a *given* course of action is going to easily > reach the goal. > > I suppose it goes back to the question of whether > what the enlightened person thinks is the goal is > the same as the goal nature "has in mind." > I'd say that overall, life after awakening is not as fractured and fractious as it was before, so there is more a sense of ease and confidence that desires will be satisfied, one way or the other. The rigidity of the unawakened mind is an indication that it is unsatisfied and so must achieve specific things in very specific ways in order to meet its self-defined criteria for satisfaction.
The awakened mind on the other hand, has paradoxically many more resources at its disposal, and although there isn't the 'make it or break it' mentality applied to achieving desires, due to the self- sufficent nature of the mind, desires are more often achieved than not. ------------------------ 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/
