--- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote: > > ED, > > Why should there be something 'extra'?
These no need at all. To me the transformation is significant if it enhances active compassion. Otherwise, I am underwhelmed. > Isn't breaking free of falsity and living in the truth enough? May be great for her, but of litle value to the natives around her. > Her enlightenment enlightens all of us. In fact the entire > universe (which is nothng more than mind) is enlightened. In my book that is woo-woo talk. I doubt if her enlightenment illumined her mind to the tens of million of deaths of Indian, Chinese and African native ascribable to the arrogance, exploitation and venality of her kinsfolk. To me, her enlightenment would have been of value if she had devoted the rest of her life to the physical well-being of the natives. What more would you have her do? > > Mike I have no need that she should do anything. I am grateful to her I am in a conversation with you on the value of enlightenment to humanity. ---ED > After that, of what extra benefit to humankind was her life? > --ED > --- In [email protected], mike brown uerusuboyo@ wrote: > > > > I remember reading a book about an English woman who became a Tibetan buddhist > >nun and went there to meditate in a cave for 3 years. When she was first exposed > >to Buddhism she wrote that she cried with frustration at not being able to > >understand the Zen literature she was exposed to. After her 3 years of solitary > >meditation, and many deep insights, she laughed with joy at how fun and obvious > >those previously obscure Zen koans and stories now were to her!
