"constantly crossing and recrossing the gap of ignorance" might imply therefore that something is lacking in UNITY? Never saw the sense of the purpose of life as "expansion of happiness" by going into ignorance.. if the happiness is in the return to Unity, why wander off in the first place??
--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > >> Hi Rory, good to hear from you. Your perspective is always a > > refreshing and profound one. I find it delightfully paradoxical that > > we as humans, as the perfect agents of the Divine, serve Him and Her > > best by finding ourselves first ignorant and then taking the journey > > to enlightenment, over and over again, as if God Himself and Herself > > wants to experience that joy and agony of discovery and rediscovery > > infinitely. > > > Yes, precisely, Jim; many thanks! That's what I was trying to get at > with the stitching image -- constantly crossing and recrossing the gap > of ignorance, constantly encountering the not-self and re-membering it > as self, suturing sutras of self-recognition. We manifest because we > love to tell ourselves stories, and we love stories so much we are > tempted to believe in them, and that's where the suffering seems to > creep in...when we forget it's "only a movie" and start to take our > subtitles as gospel :-) >
