--- In [email protected], "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note I am not being a parakeet when I tell you that my > experience is it is moving me faster to enlightenment. > Let me put it this way, I feel this very stronly. It is > giving experience of the things I hear are the signs of > what enlightenment is.
With all due respect, and with the fervent hope that you are correct, I think you're forgetting something, Ron. Your *belief* that you are "moving faster to enlightenment" is based on what you *have been told*. Your *belief* that these things are the "signs of what enlightenment is" are based on *what you have been told*. You have made a decision to *believe* what you have been told. That doesn't necessarily make it so. I sincerely hope it is, and that you are making all the progress that you feel you are, but from my point of view you could be experiencing normal, everyday bursts of energy that pretty much everyone on a spiritual path would be noticing if they had been told to pay attention to them and "weight" them and assign them value, and to *interpret* them as progress towards enlightenment. In a TM context, for example, these things would be considered just another experience, and no weight would be given to them. Same thing in many Buddhist traditions. But in the path you've chosen, these experiences have been described as special, as mean- ingful. That makes you special and your experiences meaningful. > I reported in using the term everything is falling away > before i noticed it to be a common term used because > this is something many in my path are experiencing. And have been *told* that they "should* experience. And have been *told* that having these experiences makes them a little special, and indicates that they are making rapid progress towards enlightenment. So are they going to put a bit of emphasis on *having* these experiences? Well, duh. > Any opinion that disagrees with what I just said is like > one telling me that I am wrong about the ice cream tasting > sweet. No, it's merely reminding you that you were *told* that the ice cream would taste sweet, and that ice cream is the pathway to enlightenment. That doesn't necessarily mean that eating ice cream would get you enlightened. It might just make you fat. :-) Here's a test for you. Is it *possible* that kundalini experiences mean absolutely *nothing* about one's proximity to enlightened states of mind, and that they are Just Another Phenomenon, one that shouldn't be "weighted" more than any other? If you bristled at that idea, then I'd suggest that what you've been told about kundalini and its importance might have been aimed more at your ego than at freeing yourself from it.
