--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Tom T: > > > Only to a bound and addicted ego. Who wants to hang > > > onto the unreal. > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > > 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? > > Why would that be any different than me or you proclaiming that we > are in fact multi-millionaires, but the money just hasn't made it > into our bank accounts yet? > > And if the money hasn't made it into our bank accounts yet, we can > believe we are multi-millionaires, but we sure can't spend the money. > > > > 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. > > > "Periods of enlightenment"? Is your Self realization transient; it > comes and goes? >
Even memory is colored by the current state of consciousness...
