[FairfieldLife] Re: Expectations (What is Desire, without expectation)?

2005-07-31 Thread Robert Gimbel
---Before enlightenment, we experience ourselves as the ego, or the limited self or the small self. So, that which is desiring is desiring from the ego. As long as one remains in the ego, it is a constant battle to preclude any desire that would not be attatched to expectation. It's almost

[FairfieldLife] Re: Expectations (What is Desire, without expectation)?

2005-07-31 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In enlightenment, one is already fulfilled or has the goal of any desire fulfilled in one's being. The Self is Realized as the soul or Atma, no longer bound by the ego, or mind created small self. So, the real