--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], > "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" > <tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlist@> wrote: > > > > Adyashanti quote: > > "The state itself is reality, and it's won at the > > hands of unreality. Simply put, ultimate truth comes > > at a cost, and the cost is everything in you and > > about you that is unreal. The end result is freedom, > > happiness, peace, and no longer viewing life through > > the veils of illusion." > > > > Judy comments: [But not on that Adyashanti quote.] > > > > Scary. > > > > Tom T: > > Only to a bound and addicted ego. Who wants to hang > > onto the unreal. > > Just as a question, Tom, after realization did > you ever have the subsequent realization that > there had never been a moment in your entire > life when you were *not* realized? That enlight- > enment had been the reality all along?
It's actually a very common observation. > > I sure did. As a result, I find it difficult > to think of the periods of so-called unenlight- > enment as "unreal." They were just as real as > the periods of enlightenment. >
