--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having now read most of MDG's seemingly endless > rap, it strikes me that, for someone who > claims to be functioning from the level of Self, > there is a great deal of clinging there to the > notion of *path*. He claims to have realized the > Self, but still talks in terms of the things that > "keep" someone from the goal of realizing the Self, > in his case the ego or individual self. These > obstacles to the path are consistently portrayed > as BAD, "thieves," the things that keep us from > realization. > > It makes me wonder if realization ever occurred for > him. My first subjective experience of realization > was the same as every subsequent experience of it > in that the first thing I noticed was that "This > is nothing new. This has *always* been. There has > never been a time when this experience of enlight- > enment was not present. I just didn't realize it > was present, that's all." The *same* subjective > experience has been echoed by many people here.
I seldom worry about whether "realization" is "new" or not until the state starts to fade away and I start induling in intellectual analysis in a futile attempt to hold onto it. > > So it does make one wonder how "realized" MDG's > "realization" really is. Sounds to me like he's > still talking theory, not experience. And, > judging from his sig at the end of the rant, > selling it. > > Just my two centimes. Drive through... :-) > ------------------------ 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/
