Clarity,
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London.
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United Kingdom
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'Ye have heard that ye all are gods'. Who said that? Can't remember. But that is what we are talking about here. The Knowing.
Oh, and it is absolutely NOT about concepts. It is 'concepts' that create the maya. This is beyond concepts, beyond language.
,I do not see Enlightenment as an idea
I thought you meant 1963 Bruce, was it hexagram 63?
It is not that I am responding to anyone's 'promise' of Enlightenment; it is simply that I know myself from having had just a small taste that it's the most significant 'experience' (for want of a different word) I have ever 'encountered'. (for want of a different word!) For me it means, Light, Love, Liberation on a completely different level.
Really? You know exactly why I feel it is not the way to go. I don't think you know me, or my past, or even why I said what I did. I think you are as convinced of your idea of enlightenment as a hard core Christian is convinced of going to heaven to meet Jesus, as convinced as Bin Laden of being met by 70 virgins in Paradise, and as convinced as those who willingly drank to the Kool-Aid in Uganda. If you think your notion is the way, bless you and good luck on your journey.I do not see Enlightenment as an idea, but I know exactly why you would feel it is not the way you want to go.
The difficulty with the US is that our only real ancestral roots are with indigenous Indian cultures, and we are as removed from them as from Hinduism or even Christianity, though we've made our own superficial religion from our attempts to adapt to a foreign God and his laws
Here it is believed, even by many anthropologists and archaeologists, that traveling early Tibetans became the earliest known Anasazi tribes, which split up into Navajo, Hopi and even Pueblo tribes. The word Anaasází is Navajo for "Ancient Ones", and dates to the 12th century BC. So the roots do spread far, wide and deep, but are remote from our modern culture.Yes I've dumped Eastern mysticism for celtic/druidic/norse/pagan/christianity.....actually there are strong links between the ways of the north American Indians and the celts apparently. The one thing I've never had any affinity with is Buddhism...yet that seems popular here since it isn't strictly a religion.
.Judgements ideas and opinions are simply holding rails - to enable us to cope
.I do not think eggs can do this
If I bound off along an enlightened path that is a dead end - and return to my own self or heart - and balance - then I am in a neutral place - it is a place of strength. Good decisions and responses happen when we are balanced . The only physical place in our earthly body where the energy is neutral is within the heart. Perhaps a dog responds the way it does because of its neutrality. Maybe wars and atrocities are caused by the inability to be neutral - opinions judgements and ideas take us off down slippery slopes and dead ends.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).