on 5/23/06 11:20 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>
> On May 23, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Rick Archer wrote:
>
>> I was listening to Eckhart Tolle yesterday (Silence Speaks) and he was
>> saying that any thought is a viewpoint, and how liberating it is to
>> realize
>> that. It's like a small segment of a wide spectrum. Other segments,
>> even
>> contradictory and paradoxical ones, are equally valid. So its true
>> that if
>> we take our thoughts too seriously, we're addicted - we're locked
>> in or
>> trapped by a narrow perspective, unrepresentative of Reality.
>
>
> That's interesting because essentially what it points out, from an
> experiential point of view, is that Tolle has not reached self-
> liberation of thought. In others words, he ain't very realized.

Seems to me you're too quick to judge someone's level of realization based
on some quote, or someone's recollection of a quote. Maybe you have this
capability, but I can only vaguely approximate. I prefer to go with what's
inspiring and uplifting, and not make unprovable assumptions about the
speaker's level of consciousness.




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