--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > No "purification" is required to experience realization. > > > > > Realization is present at every moment and has always > > > > > been present at every moment of one's life. There was > > > > > no moment in which one was ever *not* realized. > > > > > > > > > > Not realizing one's enlightenment is a choice, not a > > > > > matter of a "clogged" or "impure" nervous system. > > > > > > > > > > IMO, of course. Your mileage may vary. > > > > > > > > And your evidence for this is... > > > > > > > > Your own "experience?" > > > > > > Yup. And that of dozens of my friends and hundreds > > > of people within the traditions I have studied. > > > They have actually *had* the experience of realization, > > > unlike some traditions that can only talk about it in > > > theory and come up with excuses for why *their* students > > > *don't* have the experience itself. > > > > Which traditions would those be? > > > it sounds like 'Shamanism', only its called 'Strawmanism'...:-)
Gosh, I never woulda guessed...
