--- In [email protected], nablusoss1008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "coshlnx" <coshlnx@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --But none of these people can perform actual Siddhis. The
> > disciples
> > > of Jesus [along with Paul] performed numerous miracles
according to
> > > tradition, and some mentioned in ACTS; even raising the dead.
The
> > > most MMY's disciples can aspire to is Doug Henning's magic
tricks,
> > > not even on your list.
> > >
> > Speaking of magic tricks, I made myself disappear for good--
That's a
> > pretty good trick, don't you think?:-)
>
> Disappear, meaning ?
>
The subsumption of the localized sense of self that every individual
soul eventually goes through. I was thinking about this process this
morning and marveling at how complete it is, and once we have grown
out of the necessity of ownership of our thoughts and actions, we
continue on, every moving into greater and greater fields of
freedom. I was marveling at this because just as a person needs that
ownership, the sense of small "I" for a few years, once it is gone,
it is gone for good. I find myself in awe of "my" innate ability to
let go of anything which I once considered individual and grow
towards that which is ever more expansive. So this transition is not
an artificial one, or one in which we will ever return to defining
ourselves as purely individual selves again. Which makes the whole
thing pretty funny-- that we as such unevolved souls here on planet
earth, place such importance and cherish this state of subsuming our
individuality to a natural state of Being, that we call
it "enlightenment". Really puts things into perspective. I can
imagine a planet of Yogis or Buddhas or Christs somewhere and they'd
look over after I proclaimed my great achievement, kinda yawn, and
say, "Oh is that all?". lol! Not to minimize the reality of having
eternally found my way home, or living this boundless freedom, but
yet again recognizing that it is another step, in an infinite number
of steps. This one in fact possibly the most significant of all,
because from this point on, I am now awake to the unfolding of all
of the others. That's what I meant by disappearing for good.:-)
