On Jul 10, 2012 7:37 AM, "Chris Austin-Lane" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If they sell water by the river, just wait until you have tasted it on the day you awaken, and for the weeks and months afterwards, if you have not already. It's not special, once you have tasted it. > > This picture is seems to point away from the fundamental wholeness of each moment. Reading it, the whole panoply of something to be gained is activated in my brain, till i laugh and sigh. Let me be more clear: abstract and impersonal descriptions of awakening experiences as giving practitioners something they lacked before the experience do more harm than good, as they push readers away from the simple, ordinary and sufficient paying attention to this moment. For some reason when people write about their own moments of waking up don't seem to have so much BS - they are more likely to show the falling away of the thoughts of being incomplete ever! But then you have also indicated an.interest in gaining spooky woo woo powers, so perhaps you are not following the simple ordinary sufficient path, and what would be misleading in my lineage is skillful language for your different goals? or we should find some other way to peaceably disagree.
