[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill - The Balm of Enlightened-Mind

2009-05-12 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: snip Vaj, You don't have negative emotions? You could have fooled me. Just now, you delivered Emptybill a self- righteous whack for picking on you. You're

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill - The Balm of Enlightened-Mind

2009-05-11 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 11, 2009, at 3:12 AM, emptybill laments: Vaj opines: A Stream Enterer would be roughly equivalent to Brahman Consciousness where one is permanently awake and one has obliterated all the afflictive emotion,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill - The Balm of Enlightened-Mind

2009-05-11 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Interesting in a post ostensibly about the diminishing of destructive emotions, how many decided to share theirs. Isn't it? And isn't it even more interesting how many of the people sharing these destructive emotions don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill - The Balm of Enlightened-Mind

2009-05-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip In a way, it´s a parallel to the recent attempts by several posters to glorify the intellect and claim it is not synonymous with ego, all while engaged in a *ferocious* intellectual battle that has *no other purpose*

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill - The Balm of Enlightened-Mind

2009-05-11 Thread Vaj
On May 11, 2009, at 8:37 AM, raunchydog wrote: Thanks for sharing your spiritual maturity Bill and your mind reading skills! Interesting in a post ostensibly about the diminishing of destructive emotions, how many decided to share theirs. Vaj, You don't have negative emotions? Did I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill - The Balm of Enlightened-Mind

2009-05-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip This concept is *anathema* to those who have the lifelong habit *of* indulging in the destructive emotions. They *like* the idea that indulging in the destructive emotions is normal, and that expressing them may even

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill - The Balm of Enlightened-Mind

2009-05-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 11, 2009, at 8:37 AM, raunchydog wrote: [Vaj wrote:] Thanks for sharing your spiritual maturity Bill and your mind reading skills! Interesting in a post ostensibly about the diminishing of destructive emotions,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill - The Balm of Enlightened-Mind

2009-05-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: snip Vaj, You don't have negative emotions? You could have fooled me. Just now, you delivered Emptybill a self- righteous whack for picking on you. You're in no position to claim moral superiority over anyone, pretending

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill - The Balm of Enlightened-Mind

2009-05-11 Thread Vaj
On May 11, 2009, at 8:51 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Interesting in a post ostensibly about the diminishing of destructive emotions, how many decided to share theirs. Isn't it? And isn't it even more interesting how many of the