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I don't really have
the answers or self medication wouldn't be my answer. I don't know really Rick,
I've never had the support of a coherent group of people backing me up. I've
been all alone here in NOLA for the past fifteen, until I found some Buddhists,
but I really don't care about group practices any longer at this point except as
a retreat. Rick, I have to make that transition someday to a straight spiritual
type who represents what he stands for without weaknesses. But yes, the
unboundedness is a big problem, but more of a problem is the dire necessity to
be able to function successfully when I don't feel like it, against all odds.
Like 'All That Jazz.' But in a few years the pressure might ease a bit as I
reach the top scale of my profession here in the city. Yes, I need too learn to
integrate. But needing to and doing it are two different things. I don't
integrate very well, which is why I picked up the other techniques and practices
that I do, they help. Chanting helps alot I find, after meditation. And so
on.
If it wasn't drugs
it would have to be sex. Excercise never did work for me for grounding. I
am seriously pitta so grounding equals dulling out.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 10:20
AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife]
Unboundedness
Kirk, I was thinking about what you were saying about
needing drugs to keep you grounded because unboundedness spaces you out (I
hope I’ve got that right). Isn’t enlightenment all about getting acclimated to
functioning in a state of unboundedness? If an ordinary person were to shift
suddenly into the enlightened state, they wouldn’t be able to function. In
fact, this is exactly what happened to Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie. It took
each of them a few years to adjust. Maharishi said that if you were to get
enlightened suddenly it would take ten strong men to hold you down. But you’ve
been at it for so many years. Shouldn’t your focus be on integrating and
acclimating to unboundedness, rather than try to suppress or obliterate the
experience? It seems like the intensity of your cooking job would help do
this. How about physical exercise? Jogging or something? It seems to me that
unboundedness is a good thing. We want it. We just need to learn to handle
it.
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