I asked for just one. Was I unclear?
Motor-mouth.
-J.
> Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> Talking about before awakening or after awakening, talking about the work
> of practice, all wrong. Sudden awakening, works for some, for some the
> idea causes them to miss the wonder of life. For some, it appears to
> foster a lack of psychological sight: thinking that because such an
> awakening experience has been in their past they will never get caught up
> in illusion again, they then pretend not to be caught up in illusion the
> next time it happens: and then they are hosed, because now they are
> deceiving themselves. A great awakening, but "to encounter the absolute is
> not yet enlightenment." Zen stories are full of people who thought they
> had achieved some great awakening only to be brought back to ordinariness
> by their friends and teachers.
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