--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > <no_reply@> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > All yours and others apparent desire to proclaim > their > > > awakenings as the same as MMY/TMO enlightenment > is quite > > > odd. Just pronounce what ever awakening one > wants. Other > > > than those that have requirements that one > doesn't meet. > > > > > And as long as someone's definition or > proclamation of > > enlightenment doesn't fit your definition of what > it should > > be, you are 'SAFE'. > > Boy, Jim, either you aren't getting what new morning > is saying AT ALL, or you feel you're entitled to > ignore it completely and substitute a completely > different version of your own devising. > > What he's saying makes perfect sense on its face; > it's > virtually a truism: to claim MMY-style enlightenment > (not new morning's own definition), you need to meet > the criteria MMY has set for it. > > He's not saying there is no other style of > enlightenment, > or that if you don't meet the MMY criteria you > aren't > enlightened. > > But that's how you seem to be interpreting what he > writes, for no good reason that I can see. Pray tell, do we or is there a consensus on MMY style enlightenment? I doubt it. I've always seen it as MMY giving us a conceptual tool kit so one doesn't have a heart attack when the domain of Realization is breached and most of the tools fall out of the toolbox. > > > > > > > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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/
