On May 24, 2006, at 5:28 PM, sparaig wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > on 5/24/06 1:42 PM, new_morning_blank_slate at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
> >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <fairfieldlife@>
> > > wrote:
> > >> I
> > >> have several friends who Awakened recently, and they say that
> soon
> > >> thereafter, the shit hit the fan. They began feeling guilt and
> other
> > >> emotions that needed dealing with a thousand times more
> intensely than
> > >> before their awakening. Maybe that's in store for me. Maybe not.
> > > Stay >tuned.
> > >
> > > And possibly their use of the label "awakening" refers to
> something
> > > different than how (some) others may understand the attributes
> and
> > > "state" associated with that label.
> >
> > Possibly, but I'm using it in the usual sense: Self-Realization
>
> Except, of course, that term comes from Maslow, who used it in an
> entirely different way
> than people with a yoga background do.
Very nice fine-point L. A good point because the two are often
confused or casually used as if somehow synonymous or congruent.
The Sanskrit word is clearer IMO: atma-jnana.
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