--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "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. > > That was how I understood it in MMY's system also. I was commenting > on the Koan: > > "I'd like to give you the following koan: > If you loose your own personality, you can afford to be non-equal." > > I think it is pretty clear that personalities don't diminish in any > way from spiritual practices judging from this group! >
Sure Curtis, but of course I do mean it the way Judy described. For me its rather a 'view', a fundamental understanding that personailty, the external persona, my habits, thought habits, opininions etc are arbitrary and not chosen by 'me'. As such I understand the extreme relativity of what 'I am' in an external way. So 'losing ones's personality' would refer to such an understanding.
