To become enlightened one needs merit and wisdom. It's hard to develop either without the other, especially in a short life so one needs the ideal auspicious interdependence, which necessitates especially good karma and the openness to appreciate the value of good timing to utilize a skillful fulcrum. People too selfish and into their own shortsighted goals lose the value of the field of the base of life, and like a wave come crashing back. To be leveraged from samsara one needs to identify totally with it without remainder, and use it to leverage itself from itself thus separating into the triad of rishi, devata, and chandas. The rishi is developed in the brain through ultimate and final internal conflict, obtained through interdependence as based upon merit and wisdom. Someone ultimately wise could leverage the entire world without anyone else even knowing.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mr. Magoo Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why should being good and attaining enlightenment go together? --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip> >Or is there a direct, > provable and causal link between being 'good' and attaining > enlightenment? > > I don't think there is any connection between the two, at all. Good question! It's all about Harmony, between YOU and God (or the laws of nature). The more you are in harmony with the laws of nature the more quickly Dharma will propell you to God. It's like being in the main current of a river as opposed to being caught up in an eddy. When we meditate we achieve (eventually) complete surrender to the laws of nature which effortlessly sweep us up to Anandam (as MMY puts it). All of nature is flowing naturally to re-union with that from which it came, being good promotes that, as it is in harmony with the laws of nature. Ego and attachment holds us back...... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links
