--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Comment below:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
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> **Snip**
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> >
> > Still another way of looking at it is that it is
> > a choice *only in retrospect*, i.e., from the
> > perspective of realization, but not from the
> > waking-state perspective ("Knowledge is different
> > in different states of consciousness").
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> **End**
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> This (above), is backwards. "Realization" is the extinction of even
> the concept of "choice". It's in the so-called waking state where
> choice (like waking state) "appears" to exist.
>
> Realization is that it doesn't.
Well, that's yet *another* way of looking at it.
The semantics gets very difficult here!
I don't think "choice" is an appropriate term in
any context or state of consciousness with
regard to realization. There is no sense in
which one "chooses" to become (or not become)
realized. That's the notion of a thoroughly
stuck control freak.
