--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Remember the Disney cartoon "Dumbo?" His friend and > mentor gives him a "magical feather" that allows him > to fly when he holds it in his trunk. The thing is, > the feather wasn't magical. It was a *trick*, some- > thing that allowed Dumbo to transcend his own self- > imposed limitations and realize an ability that had > always been available to him. > > I think that this is an interesting metaphor to keep > in mind when looking at spiritual traditions. > "The analogy I think is appropriate here is Dumbo's feather. Dumbo the elephant believed that the 'magic feather' given to him was what enabled him to fly, and that it was special. But it was a trick. He never needed *anything* to be able to fly."
--Barry, 3/18/06 "Remember 'Dumbo?' Dumbo was convinced that it was the "magic feather" given to him by his guru that enabled him to fly, so he flew. As it turns out, the feather never did diddleysquat; the ability to fly was always present, just not realized." --Barry, 5/8/2006 (Barry, your consistency is showing.) > With the arrival of some pundits in Fairfield I > would expect to see more of something I've seen in > other spiritual groups. That is, people reporting > "good experiences" or even realization experiences, > because now they have an *excuse* to do so. They > have been given a "magical feather." > > A teacher comes to town and does a certain empower- > ment (in a Tibetan Buddhist context) or the teacher > announces some kind of "phase shift" in the overall > environment or "enough" buttbouncers gather together > or some pundits come to town and start chanting. And > what happens? Suddenly it's "OK" to have "good > experiences." It's now *permissible* to have "better > experiences," and thus people start having them. Actually, if you'd been reading the traffic, you'd know that people have been reporting "better experiences" almost from the start of the current course and have continued to do so. This has been one of the main selling points of the course, in fact; not sure how you've managed to miss it. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
