wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
> wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > What's to stick around for?
> >
> > Hey, just use the forum as it pleases you to do so. I enjoy
> > sharing my experiences here, and if some people don't agree,
> > or think I'm a phony, or ego tripping, that's cool...I am sure
> > there are others out there that enjoy reading them.
> >
> > The chief reason I do so is that these experiences of sidhis and
> > enlightenment have typically been spoken about with an air of
> > spiritual constipation and false piety that I personally find
> > absurd.
>
> You regularly provide an excellent dose of Ex-lax. :-)
>
> > My aim in speaking about such things personally is to let
> > others know that such experiences are relatively commonplace and
> > normal, and not to create all this bs around them.
>
> Yup, got that. A noble cause.
>
> I never understood why people go to such lengths
> to believe that their spiritual teachers or the
> people they look up to are "extraordinary." It
> seems to me that it makes more sense to think
> of them as ordinary.
>
Its the same old quest to hold two completely contradictory truths
in our awareness simultaneously; that our teachers are extraordinary
to us personally, and personally we should evaluate them through
ordinary means.
Otherwise, we never 'get' anywhere.
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