--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > <snip> > > I don't view the ego in the way you seem to be using it and > > losing my personality is not a goal for me. > > As I understand it, enlightenment doesn't mean > "losing" one's personality, only the attachment > to and identification with it. The personality > remains as it was. > Almost exactly. The personality is much more enjoyable "in" enlightenment because we can be precise with it, nothing hidden. And all of its attributes are there, all shiny and available. We also have full control of it-- not that we want to act phony, but rather we can choose to be exactly the very best of ourselves, more powerful, more fun, more everything. Jai Guru Dev. Om Shiva.
All it takes is giving up everything (lol), and it all comes back ten-thousand fold (lol x 10,000). Its funny to see some here twisting themselves this way and that, with elaborate explanations and such strident voices that keep them from being free. Holding on to the bars of their cages as one poster said about himself, so that they can continue the only life they have ever known. What do you do about such people? What do you say to them, when they are living such lives of frozen fear? Nothing much to say, and just go on with life, seeing right through them. :-)
