--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> To reiterate the point, have a look at the other > topic I started recently, the one with "Why would > you believe that..." in the Subject line. There > have been 58 responses so far. From my point of > view, the *only* responses in that thread that are > the least bit argumentative came from you three. > The other people just presented their ideas and > *discussed*. You guys argued. > My response to your earlier thread. No argument here:
'The ego-bound mind cannot accept a simple answer that the Self recognizes the Self. Again, if the ego-bound intellect could just be confronted with a set of relative criteria, then it could argue and challenge its way to 'freedom' and safety, yet when faced with nothing to challenge, it can only challenge the Self. This is why I have referred to the ego earlier as both cunning and stupid; cunning in that it will devise brilliant traps for itself, to maintain its limited existence, and stupid, because from the perspective of the Self its antics for self preservation are seen as glaringly obvious. Another reason the small self looks for lists is that in its limited time/space existence it defines itself through lists; I have been here and there, I know such and such, I have done this and that, so it naturally tries to find a similar definition for that which cannot be defined; non-dual awareness. It is a natural tendency for the ignorant self, yet one doomed to spectacular failure if the seeker is hungry enough.'
