jstein wrote: > Virtually every teaching I've ever encountered about > enlightenment has said the same thing (usually at > much greater length): experiencing (not just believing) > that everything is perfect just as it is does *not* > mean not wanting to change anything. > Don't know exactly where you're getting your information about the 'enlightenment tradition'. The notion that everything is perfect 'just as it is' isn't mentioned by Shakya the Muni, the founder of the enlightenment tradition and the first historical yogin in India. The idea that life is perfection isn't mentioned by Patanjali either - in fact he says that existence is characterized by imperfection, suffering, on a grand scale.
The point is, that if everything is perfect, just as it is, then there would be no need for yoga, the goal of which is perfection. We are either perfect or we are not. If not, then we need a technique, a yoga, a path that would leads us out of suffering and into perfection. Read more: Forum: alt.meditation.transcendental Thread: A Born Optimist Subject: Reduced for satiric purposes to a facile formula. Author: willytex Date: 10/13/2001 http://tinyurl.com/3csdrb > Change is constant and inevitable. > Has it been established that change is constant and inevitable? I think not. Have you been reading Ken Wilber again?
