--- In [email protected], "qntmpkt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > So the best solution to answer your question is for you to > > fully realize Enlightenment, waking, dreaming and sleeping. > > Then you will know beyond any doubt. > > This is a typical "neo-Advaitin" reply; a strategy Nisargadatta > Maharaj fell back on repeatedly rather than saying "I don't > know". Sorry, this is a poor excuse for addressing the questions > regarding knowledge and how acquire it. There's either a full, > or partial answer: saying "find out for yourself" is a cop out.
No, it really isn't. It's the only honest and useful answer one can give. Even the 'partial' answers are all lies, and thus misleading. You seem to be assuming that the state of enlight- enment *can* be described, and the "path" to it described. I make no such assumption. Enlightenment can never be understood, even by those who are experiencing it. A description, even given by someone who is experiencing it, will IMO never help that person to understand enlightenment or help anyone else to experience it. Descriptions are at best just something one does to pass the time, in the exact same way you'd try to describe the taste of a papaya to someone who has never encountered one. We are talking about an *experience*. Either you experience it or you don't. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
