wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> >
> > Lost me here.
>
> Though I think I get what jim is getting at, it struck me as
odd/funny
> that "work on one area and the next" aka polishing parts, creates
> wholeness.
Yeah, it is funny when seen that way, as if we are consciously and
meticulously assembling a model of ourselves. While such an image may
have meaning from a psychological perspective, i.e. building
character, I like the image of the seeker attempting to find his way
by looking through the wrong end of a foggy telescope. To grow towards
the eventual marriage between the Self and the self necessitates that
our intimacy with the Self must grow, which in turn extinguishes the
small self within us. A delicate dance to be sure, and one that turns
on not just pure discrimination, but the feeling level as well.
> And while it may simply be semantical, "creating gradually
> ... our awakened selves" implies the Self was once asleep. It wasn't.
> Something else was asleep.
>
Ed Zackerly. What I was writing about was not what the Reality is,
that of the Self being ever and magnificently awake, but rather our
experience that integration with the Self takes place gradually, over
time, and within space.
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