--- In [email protected], "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> TorguoiseB writes: snipped
> I sat there trying to not have as much fun with the
> day as I knew I was capable of having, and then I
> caught myself doing it.  The moment I did, I was
> able to laugh at myself. And through my laughter,
> I found my body saying "Yes."  Out loud.  Weirdest
> damned thing.

> Everything changed. Background flipflopped into
> foreground and the witnessing, a moment before
> unnoticed, moved front and center and reasserted
> its Self again.  And all it took was getting to
> "Yes."

> I'm sure it'll pass...all things do...but it's
> neat while it lasts. Life's cool sometimes, yes?
>
> Tom T:
> Very astute observations. Reminds me of Patanjali Chapter 3
> Vs 54: Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the
> farthest shore.
> It is intuitive, omniscient and beyond all divisions of time and space.
> Vs 55: And when the translucent intellect is as pure as the Self,
> there is Enlightenment.
>
> It is the Self knowing the Self but there is the working of the
> intellect that makes the final and finest discrimination.

Actually the above quote is about viveka-khyati --an important experience and
discrimination which can continue for quite a while, but alas is not liberation--athough
that is the next chapter (of the YS). It *is* often confused with liberation. The Self knowing
the Self is still a ways off. You may have seen the man behind the curtain Dorothy, but
there's still more to Oz than this.

As to the
> cool stuff passing it is sometimes easier to think of it as
> aclimination to what is going on. If we aclimate then we have
> virtually no contrast and then the coolness is the ongoing day to day
> reality. It is my experience that all this cool stuff just gets more
> and more aclimated too and then we know it as our day to day everyday
> life. Enjoy. Tom

Interesting description of viveka-khyati. The self continues to present experiences to Self
and more objects of awareness gain the slippery teflon coating of Love, eventually
absorbed by Self.







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