Sal
On Mar 10, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Michael Dean Goodman wrote:
THE STRUGGLE OF INDIVIDUALITY TO PERPETUATE ITS ILLUSION
I feel compassionately sad whenever I meet those who still cling
to the idea that their individuality (individual intellect) can
guide them to the goal of realization, of remembering, of waking
up again to Reality. They're sure that they don't need a guide
on the path, don't need to surrender control, don't need to ask
for help, and don't need to embrace their intellect's incompetence
and impotence to handle the job.
They are sure that their relative, finite intellect, bound in the
world of space and time, can grok and master infinity, the field
without boundaries, far beyond the ken of the relative intellect.
That is delusion, that is arrogance of the deepest kind, that is
the very essence of ignorance. Their individual ego/intellect has
convinced them to trust it (not only to trust it, but to actually
believe that they ARE it), and to never entertain the idea that the
ego/intellect's assertion of its importance and ability to guide
them "back home" IS ITSELF THE VERY CRUX OF THE PROBLEM, the very
core of the ignorance.
