TorquiseB wrties snipped: They also assume that states of consciousness will continue to change and fluctuate, even after enlightenment is stable. One day you'll be experiencing "stage one samadhi," and next something else. Your state of consciousness will continue to fluctuate as long as you have a body, because that is the nature of having a body. And that's OK. They view the idea that one could "achieve" a certain state of consciousness and consider it the "end point" and then *stay* there with a great deal of amusement. They laugh until their sides ache, as if someone has just told them the funniest joke they've ever heard.
Tom T: It kind of goes down as "My Samadhi is better than your Samadhi". In actuality it is all a matter of attention. Of course where the attention is pointed at and why is a wonder and certainly seems to be where ever it needs to be. As a friend of mine said so succintcly. "You will have every experience you need to have until you wake up." Attention comes and goes on some schedule and where it stops nobody knows to quote the carney who spins the wheel of fortune. Tom
