Yes! I think (BUT - not sure about anything), we fell out of enlightenment when
we moved away from a life where we were preyed upon and lived a hand to mouth
existence and starvation, surfeit, death and birth were all around us. The ego
could not control us whilst we are constantly involved in our own survival and
fight or flight was treated normally. Thus one monk became enlightened when he
expected to die from thirst after collapsing in a desert, only have it rain in
the night and finding water in a vessel drank deeply only to wake up and
realise he had drunk out of a skull.
That is why all descriptions of enlightenment refer to the simple state of
being ie the shit stick or 2 lbs of flax. If any of you have read 'On Having No
Head' by David Harding? or John Wren-Lewis' 'Dazzling Dark' and anything by
Hakuin the state is so stupidly simple as to be beneath our sophistication.
Still I guess you all know this and I am just flapping my gums.
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