1998/04/22  23:46  
 kundalini-l-d Digest V98 #322 
  
kundalini-l-d Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 322
 
Today's Topics: 
  Re: Taking Jerry (UN)seriously        [ Jerry Katz <umbadaATnospamns.sympatico.ca> ] 
  Re: Saint or Sinner?                  [ "Ed Jason" <lobATnospamlineone.net> ] 
  Re: Delirium's guide to the universe  [ Delirium <deliriumATnospamfull-moon.com> ] 
  Re: curious                           [ "Susan Carlson" <divine_goddessATnospamhot ] 
  Re: curious                           [ "Susan Carlson" <divine_goddessATnospamhot ] 
  Re: curious/                          [ David Bozzi <david.bozziATnospamsnet.net> ] 
  Re: Layers of mind                    [ David Bozzi <david.bozziATnospamsnet.net> ] 
  Re: curious                           [ "Ed Jason" <lobATnospamlineone.net> ] 
  Knee Surgery on Thursday...           [ MMeyers541 <MMeyers541ATnospamaol.com> ] 
  even more curious                     [ "Susan Carlson" <divine_goddessATnospamhot ] 
  even more curious                     [ "Susan Carlson" <divine_goddessATnospamhot ] 
  re:curious                            [ Dan Margolis <margolisATnospamtransbay.net ] 
  Re: even more curious                 [ Dan Margolis <margolisATnospamtransbay.net ] 
  Re: Meditation April 23th             [ MMeyers541 <MMeyers541ATnospamaol.com> ] 
  RE: Knee Surgery on Thursday...       [ "Roberto Gonzales del Valle" <93035 ] 
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:31:09 -0700 
From: Jerry Katz <umbadaATnospamns.sympatico.ca> 
To: samyanaATnospamhotmail.com 
CC: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: Taking Jerry (UN)seriously 
Message-ID: <353EEE3D.2C43ATnospamns.sympatico.ca> 
 
Gloria Lee wrote: 
>  
> >Jerry wrote: 
> But, hey, that's just 
> >between you and me and does not go beyond these four walls.
 
> Glo: And the 400+ on the list??? Promises, promises...you men practice 
> this selective deafness so well, too. (I TOLD you it's too late, 
> anyway..but do you listen?? Noooo)
 
Are you serious?   
 
 
> >Glo Lee wrote: 
> >BUT 
> >> Will you take me out for Chinese food and PAY for it, even?? 
> > 
> > 
> >Jerry wrote: 
> >I think at this point I would like to discuss Kundalini. 
> > 
> >Did someone say PAY?
 
>  Glo: One of the side effects of K is a craving for Chinese food. 
>  I am not a cheap date, Jerry. (Having degenerated to this level 
>  of sexist bantering proves NOTHING.. I can say anything I want, you 
>  said so yourself.)
 
Are you serious?
 
> >You are funny, smart, sweet and wonderful. What are you doing hanging 
> >out with a borderline nutcase like me? 
> > 
> >Love, 
> >Jerry 
>  
> Dear Jerry, 
>    It appears I must be rather desperate for flattery, but let me hasten 
> to assure you that your sincerity, wit, and wisdom are obviously more 
> important to me than your mental status exam scores.
 
That's a compliment, right?
 
 
> PS.. May I use you as a reference next time I apply for a job??
 
Are you serious? 
  
(Seriously, I am grateful for your allowing me to go waaaaaay out on a 
limb with my craziness. I think I'm gonna settle down for a while now.)
 
Lotsa love, 
Jerry 
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"We are all One." 
The Wild Disco Dance of Enlightenment, Ch.52, p.893 
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 04:37:54 -0700 
From: "Ed Jason" <lobATnospamlineone.net> 
To: <kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com>, "Danijel Turina" <sinisa.turinaATnospamzg.tel.hr> 
Subject: Re: Saint or Sinner? 
Message-Id: <199804230344.EAA19088ATnospamboober.lineone.net> 
 
> >However many holy words you read, how many you speak, what good will they 
> >do you if you do not act upon them?" 
> > 
> >These words I recently posted are *not* ascribed to Charles Manson as I  
> >stated but are in fact the words of the Buddha. You can probably now see  
> >how spiritual they are . . . 
>  
> ;))))) I don't know, I liked it and then read the name, and then it was 
> "what the f"#$?!?". ;))))))))
 
Lack of clarity? People confuse wisdom with emotional expectation?
 
Be well 
Somebody Else 
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:53:02 +0100 
From: Delirium <deliriumATnospamfull-moon.com> 
To: Paul West <paulATnospamstationone.demon.co.uk>, 
 Kundalini-l <Kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: Delirium's guide to the universe... 
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Paul West wrote:
 
> {referring to my "rules" of my universe} 
> 
> I would have used precicely the same words I think.
 
Hmmn...I'm thinkin' we are on the same "ego-driven" wavelength (no insult meant)...and here, I thought my ego  (and my Pollyanna complex) was dead...
 
> I have been having the problem of trying not to let myself feel 
> desires or have bad sexual attitudes.
 
Sounds all too Puritanical (and familiar, being a child of church of christ mamma) to me...being too hard on one-self...
 
> I guess I do also feel that there is a catch to people making my 
> happy, that they are actually /making/ me happy rather than me 
> choosing it. Sometimes I'm just not in the mood.
 
Yep, sometimes I just positively *bask* in my grumpiness!
 
> I can only seemingly live in the present moment like I have no 
> history, and I can only think of the future and past.
 
What a damned frustrating conundrum, this!
 
> Seem's I'm sharing a roundabout donkey with you.
 
Well, Paul dear, I hope at least *one* of us catches the brass ring...and it turns out to be golden and enlightening and all those passionate desires we like so much to squelch! (but I don't think that's how it works...ah, well!)
 
--Confused, dazed, delirious, and bruised all over from leaping for that damn ring...Kath (Delirium) 
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:13:57 PDT 
From: "Susan Carlson" <divine_goddessATnospamhotmail.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com, margolisATnospamtransbay.net 
Subject: Re: curious 
Message-ID: <19980423041357.2419.qmailATnospamhotmail.com> 
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> 
>I may have anthropomorphized the tree but I was trying to  
treepomorphize 
>people...  The root of the assumption is that a tree does what a tree  
does. 
>To people that seems to be giving.  To a tree it is it's nature.  An 
>enlightened person does as an enlightened person does.
 
Yes Dan! Yes! Can we see the natural effect of enlightenment as we the  
natural effect of being a tree ( tree-ment?)? Enlightenment is as  
enlightenment does....a la Forrest Gump. 
> 
>> When people are 
>> unenlightened they behave one way and when they are enlightened they 
>> behave another way, wouldn't you think? 
> 
>Not exactly...Before enlightenment carry water and chop wood...After 
>enlightenment carry water and chop wood.
 
Yes...thats what i said a couple of days ago accept now I am aware I am  
the Goddess who chops wood and carries water. 
> 
> 
>> I have a question....if we are all a part of God, and some peoples  
are 
>> enlightened and some  are not, then god is not totally enlightenment?  
( 
>> another foolish question but these things I want to know about). 
> 
>When I asked a similar question to a teacher he told me "This may seem 
>important to you now but eventually it won't concern you."
 
And you believed him? What an effective way to limit inquiry! If the  
answer was not important to him, then why not tell you? Did you ask him  
is he even had an answer? Maybe it wont concern you but at least you  
made that decision for yourself.
 
 Are we once enlightened, always enlightened? 
>Yes
 
Please tell me why you believe this to be so. Sometimes I think this is  
true and sometimes I dont. I would like to hear why you think this is  
so. 
> 
>> I am beginnging to think that the pursueing of enlightenment is 
>> something of a cultural vanity, particularly when people are unable  
to 
>> recognize or identify the traits of an enlightened person. 
>> 
> 
>Cultural vanity might be considered trying to limit the unfamiliar to 
>familiar terms.
 
As might be trying to obfuscate the obvious with the unfamiliar. 
 
Wondering if there are other people who wonder if their is a demystical  
school of practical enlightenment,
 
Susan
 
 
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:41:05 PDT 
From: "Susan Carlson" <divine_goddessATnospamhotmail.com> 
To: Harsha1MTMATnospamaol.com 
Cc: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: Re: curious 
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>Harsha: Well put.  One contemporary approach to this is seen in the  
claims of 
>"gurus" who claim to be "enlightened."  The logic is that because the  
"guru" 
>is enlightened whatever he does and says must be enlightened behavior.
 
OK Harsha....me thinks we are cooking with gas now.
 
  Given 
>the sexual and financial and ethical scandals surrounding "enlightened  
gurus" 
>this logic is problematic.  Indeed, most gurus claiming to be  
enlightened 
>exhibit a high degree of confusion and conduct not worthy of even our  
elected 
>officials.
 
Would you think that claiming to be enlightened is a trait of the non  
enlightened in a generic way?
 
I was reading in the journal, 'what is enlightenment?' that the Dalai  
Lama claims to NOT be enlightened. Until Tibet is free he wont be able  
to work on his enlightenment because his vow of compassion comes first.  
Now that makes me ponder the nature of enlightenment. Many would  
consider, i think, the Dalai Lama  to be enlightened and his life a  
reflection of his enlightenment.
 
 
 > Yet many disciples insist that confusion, lack of restraint, lack 
>of any clarity are perfect evidence for the high state attained by  
their guru.
 
Boy, does this make me laugh with recognition and it is so sad and true.   
I wonder where and why acting like an irresponsible space cadet became  
an attribute of sainthood? Gosh, every time I turn around the world  
becomes more full with enlightened people.
 
>The spiritual circus is both a comedy and a tragedy in that it is very  
much 
>like life. 
 
Now there is a big hello from the universe....
 
May be its because people separate spirituality from living....
 
:)))
 
Love, 
Susan
 
 
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:13:40 -0400 
From: David Bozzi <david.bozziATnospamsnet.net> 
To: Kundalini <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: curious/ 
Message-ID: <353EBFF4.1691ATnospammail.snet.net> 
 
Holly N. Barrett, Ph.D. wrote:
 
> When I read this I had such a joyful vision of God seeking Itself.  And 
> the more God finds Itself the more we fade into a kind of transparent 
> version of ourselves.  This is terrifying!  No wonder we grab onto 
> vanity with all our might.  
 
Through That Terror Is Light... 
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:58:50 -0400 
From: David Bozzi <david.bozziATnospamsnet.net> 
To: Kundalini <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: Layers of mind 
Message-ID: <353ECA8A.2BD9ATnospammail.snet.net> 
 
Brent Blalock wrote:
 
> We are Brent.
 
Any good exorcists in the click? 
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 05:24:02 -0700 
From: "Ed Jason" <lobATnospamlineone.net> 
To: "Rik" <rik_wATnospamrocketmail.com> 
Cc: <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com>, <rik_wATnospamrocketmail.com> 
Subject: Re: curious 
Message-Id: <199804230504.GAA30574ATnospamboober.lineone.net> 
 
> 1) To be enlightened is just to be "better" (calmer, 
>    freer, self-awarer, etc.) than those who aren't
 
? 
Better at making distinctions and judgements as well perhaps? 
I think not. (I think not therefore I am not?)
 
> 2) You are enlightened when I recognize you as such
 
As someone has pointed out (Harsha) many dangerous and ineffectual people diagnose themself or others as enlightened. Who does the recognising is important.
 
> 3) When you are enlightened, (please don't laugh!) 
>    other enlightened people will laugh at your jokes
 
If this was a joke  
I did not laugh 
If you are enlightened 
I am not 
Either way the distinction 
is mostly imagination
 
  
> Don't fret Lobster.  You've passed your own test #3, 
> and I hereby dub thee enlightened.  You may not refuse 
> your honorary adjective.       
 
Of course I refuse it. I may be arrogant but I am not stupid enough to believe this word has any importance or significance - except to those with vested interests to promote status instead of wisdom. 
If you go over your post, you will see that you are conferring enlightenment on yourself and not me.
 
Be Well (and good) 
Lobster 
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:05:24 EDT 
From: MMeyers541 <MMeyers541ATnospamaol.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
Subject: Knee Surgery on Thursday... 
Message-ID: <17602852.353ecc16ATnospamaol.com> 
 
Dear List,
 
Thursday, 4 PM, DST in Denver, am (finally) having surgery on my knee to 
extract the bb that has been there for months; the surgery was delayed because 
of a scheduling mix-up ATnospam the surgeon's office.
 
Earlier this eve., went to Psychic Horizons in Boulder, & rec'd a wonderful 
aura cleansing and other healing.  So, request you also send some healing 
thoughts my way.
 
I plan to have an OBE while under anesthesia, & plan to visit everyone on the 
list...altho' I've only seen some of your faces on Franz's website.  (BTW, 
Lobster Man, you look EXACTLY as I pictured!)
 
Thank you all.  Later... 
Love, Michele 
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:19:54 PDT 
From: "Susan Carlson" <divine_goddessATnospamhotmail.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: even more curious 
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:53:10 +0200 
   From: "Sen Ashanka"<sashankaATnospamaismi.ais.it> 
   To: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
   Subject: Re: curious 
   
 
   Hello friends,
 
   Susan wrote : 
   << What if enlightenment is a dynamic process, non linear? Then 
   Peswami 
    could feel he has lost his enlightenment. In church we used to 
   say, 
    "once saved, always saved'. Are we once enlightened, always 
   enlightened? 
    I am beginnging to think that the pursueing of enlightenment is 
    something of a cultural vanity, particularly when people are 
   unable to 
    recognize or identify the traits of an enlightened person. 
     >>
 
   About  trying  to "recognise" spiritually enlightened persons, 
   the problem of  genuine  versus fraud always exists. Spiritual 
   issues are far removed from the wordly issues, so no behaviour 
   could  be  labled  as  "enlightened" or "non-enlightened.". It 
   is not in outward show that  makes someone recognised as being 
   spiritually enlightened.
 
Oh Ashanka...i totally disagree...to separate spirituality from worldly  
issues is precisely what makes genuine enlightenment so difficult to  
recognize.
 
   If  you have been to a place, you know it within yourself, and 
   need not prove to anyone else that you have been there. If you 
   have seen a  beautiful river and felt happy about it, there is 
   nothing to prove to anyone else.
 
Who said anything about proving anything? If I lay out in the sun I get  
a tan...when I am in love people notice...
 
   Similarly, when you realise your true self, you are so happy 
   about it,  you do not have to prove anything to anyone after 
   this.  You  cannot  prove to anyone that you are happy. Your 
   actions and behavour  will show it. Just as different people 
   have different expressions  of happiness and sorrow, so also 
   for the ultimate happiness of self-realisaton.
 
Yes and sometimes sorrow looks like happiness and happiness looks like  
sorrow.
 
   One person may jump  and  shout that he is happy, and cry and 
   howl when sad. Another person  might smile and frown. A third 
   might not show any emotion on the  face  at all.... These are 
   all behaviours. But, there could be someone who does not even 
   feel happiness, sorrow, anger, jealosy....  
 
I would call this person numb, maybe even depressed.
 
 This person then 
   is enlightened. His actions and behaviour are  independant of 
   external world stimulus and situations.
 
I dont know if you could call this person enlightened but I can see that  
there would be a congruency between enlightenment and behaviour.
 
   >I am beginnging to think that the pursueing of enlightenment is 
   >something of a cultural vanity, particularly when people are 
   unable to 
   >recognize or identify the traits of an enlightened person. 
   There  is  nothing  in  recognising the traits of an "enligtened 
   person".  If  there  were  traits,  then  simply emulating those 
   traits  would  make  you  enlightened. 
 
Naaah...acting like a dog does not change me into a dog. Acting holy  
does not make me holy. Change comes from within not from external  
stimuli/structure. Pretending to be enlightened is not the same as being  
enlightened although a lot of people have made money pretending to be  
so. :)) And I know you said emulate...people practice being happy all  
the time...those are the ones with the permanent grin on their faces  
that looks like it would crack if you touched it.
 
 However, enlightement is 
   the  result  of  deep  deep  introspection, self-negation, self- 
   control, mind-control and lots more. When you reach enlightement 
   you will know it.  It  does  not  matter  that anyone else knows 
   it or  not,  because  by  then  you will lose the distinction of 
   "me" and "you" and "someone else".
 
Is it? I thought there are records of people attaining instant  
enlightenment thru miraculous events.
 
   An  enlightened  person simply behaves the way he/she likes to 
   behave,  irrespective  of  anything else. 
 
So do sociopaths.  Maybe there is not any difference. Sociopaths are a  
law unto themselves...have no conscience.
 
Whereas outwardly it 
   might look very ordinary,  the  mind  of  such  persons always 
   travel  far  beyond the normal planes of thought and pleasures. 
   Suhc behaviour  at  times may be eccentric, sometimes egoistic, 
   sometimes happy, sometimes sad, for no apparent outward reason.
 
   There is no way to categorise behaviour of enlightened persons 
   to say  this  is the way it should be and nothing else. God is 
   Infinite, and Infinite  are  His  ways and His manifestations. 
   Who knows what He may be up to next ?  :-)
 
Of course there is...wouldnt you expect enlightened people to act  
godlike? Of course, as I think Emerson or maybe it was Thoreau who said,  
"the god of the cannibals is a cannibal".
 
 
Love, 
Susan
 
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:24:55 PDT 
From: "Susan Carlson" <divine_goddessATnospamhotmail.com> 
To: kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com 
Subject: even more curious 
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:53:10 +0200 
   From: "Sen Ashanka"<sashankaATnospamaismi.ais.it> 
   To: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
   Subject: Re: curious 
   
 
   Hello friends,
 
   Susan wrote : 
   << What if enlightenment is a dynamic process, non linear? Then 
   Peswami 
    could feel he has lost his enlightenment. In church we used to 
   say, 
    "once saved, always saved'. Are we once enlightened, always 
   enlightened? 
    I am beginnging to think that the pursueing of enlightenment is 
    something of a cultural vanity, particularly when people are 
   unable to 
    recognize or identify the traits of an enlightened person. 
     >>
 
A:   About  trying  to "recognise" spiritually enlightened persons, 
   the problem of  genuine  versus fraud always exists. Spiritual 
   issues are far removed from the wordly issues, so no behaviour 
   could  be  labled  as  "enlightened" or "non-enlightened.". It 
   is not in outward show that  makes someone recognised as being 
   spiritually enlightened.
 
S: Oh Ashanka...i totally disagree...to separate spirituality from  
worldly issues is precisely what makes genuine enlightenment so  
difficult to recognize.
 
A:  If  you have been to a place, you know it within yourself, and 
   need not prove to anyone else that you have been there. If you 
   have seen a  beautiful river and felt happy about it, there is 
   nothing to prove to anyone else.
 
S:Who said anything about proving anything? If I lay out in the sun I  
get a tan...when I am in love people notice...
 
A:Similarly, when you realise your true self, you are so happy 
   about it,  you do not have to prove anything to anyone after 
   this.  You  cannot  prove to anyone that you are happy. Your 
   actions and behavour  will show it. Just as different people 
   have different expressions  of happiness and sorrow, so also 
   for the ultimate happiness of self-realisaton.
 
S:Yes and sometimes sorrow looks like happiness and happiness looks like  
sorrow.
 
A: One person may jump  and  shout that he is happy, and cry and 
   howl when sad. Another person  might smile and frown. A third 
   might not show any emotion on the  face  at all.... These are 
   all behaviours. But, there could be someone who does not even 
   feel happiness, sorrow, anger, jealosy....  
 
S:I would call this person numb, maybe even depressed.
 
A:This person then   is enlightened. His actions and behaviour are   
independant of   external world stimulus and situations.
 
S: I dont know if you could call this person enlightened but I can see  
that there would be a congruency between enlightenment and behaviour.
 
 S: >I am beginnging to think that the pursueing of enlightenment is 
   >something of a cultural vanity, particularly when people are 
   unable to   >recognize or identify the traits of an enlightened  
person.
 
  A: There  is  nothing  in  recognising the traits of an "enligtened 
   person".  If  there  were  traits,  then  simply emulating those 
   traits  would  make  you  enlightened. 
 
S:Naaah...acting like a dog does not change me into a dog. Acting holy  
does not make me holy. Change comes from within not from external  
stimuli/structure. Pretending to be enlightened is not the same as being  
enlightened although a lot of people have made money pretending to be  
so. :)) And I know you said emulate...people practice being happy all  
the time...those are the ones with the permanent grin on their faces  
that looks like it would crack if you touched it.
 
A: However, enlightement is 
   the  result  of  deep  deep  introspection, self-negation, self- 
   control, mind-control and lots more. When you reach enlightement 
   you will know it.  It  does  not  matter  that anyone else knows 
   it or  not,  because  by  then  you will lose the distinction of 
   "me" and "you" and "someone else".
 
S:Is it? I thought there are records of people attaining instant  
enlightenment thru miraculous events.
 
A: An  enlightened  person simply behaves the way he/she likes to 
   behave,  irrespective  of  anything else. 
 
S:So do sociopaths.  Maybe there is not any difference. Sociopaths are a  
law unto themselves...have no conscience.
 
A: Whereas outwardly it 
   might look very ordinary,  the  mind  of  such  persons always 
   travel  far  beyond the normal planes of thought and pleasures. 
   Suhc behaviour  at  times may be eccentric, sometimes egoistic, 
   sometimes happy, sometimes sad, for no apparent outward reason.
 
   There is no way to categorise behaviour of enlightened persons 
   to say  this  is the way it should be and nothing else. God is 
   Infinite, and Infinite  are  His  ways and His manifestations. 
   Who knows what He may be up to next ?  :-)
 
S: Of course there is...wouldnt you expect enlightened people to act  
godlike? But I think Emerson or maybe it was Thoreau who said, "the god  
of the cannibals is a cannibal".
 
 
Love, 
Susan
 
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:29:00 -0700 
From: Dan Margolis <margolisATnospamtransbay.net> 
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:01:29 -0700 
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To: Susan Carlson <divine_goddessATnospamhotmail.com> 
Subject: Re: curious 
References: <19980423041357.2419.qmailATnospamhotmail.com> 
 
> >> I have a question....if we are all a part of God, and some peoples 
> are 
> >> enlightened and some  are not, then god is not totally enlightenment? 
> ( 
> >> another foolish question but these things I want to know about). 
> > 
> >When I asked a similar question to a teacher he told me "This may seem 
> >important to you now but eventually it won't concern you." 
> 
> And you believed him? What an effective way to limit inquiry! If the 
> answer was not important to him, then why not tell you? Did you ask him 
> is he even had an answer? Maybe it wont concern you but at least you 
> made that decision for yourself. 
>
 
Of course I didn't believe him.  I wandered around and asked alot of other 
monks and teachers in the area many questions like that one and a lot of 
other ones with the same emphasis.  I got a lot of different answers.  A few 
months later his answer seemed to be the most accurate one.
 
>  Are we once enlightened, always enlightened? 
> >Yes 
> 
> Please tell me why you believe this to be so. Sometimes I think this is 
> true and sometimes I dont. I would like to hear why you think this is 
> so.
 
Once you are free of your past and your future, of duality and of oneness of 
emotional ties and intellectual distractions there is no way to rebind 
yourself.    If you truly let go of something it can't stay with you.  For 
example...When I was 10 my parents once wouldn't allow me to go to my friend 
Kevin's house and blow up things with gun-powder.  I was furious. 
'Everybody was blowing up things at Kevin's house.'  Now though, no matter 
how hard I try, I can't get angry with my parents over that incident.  I 
can't rebind myself to it.  I'm sure you can find a similar incident in your 
past which you've let go of.  I think no matter how hard you dig you won't 
be able to raise any emotion about that incident.  An enlightened person is 
like that with almost all emotional, intellectual and even spiritual 
constructs.  So they can't go back.
 
> > 
> >> I am beginnging to think that the pursueing of enlightenment is 
> >> something of a cultural vanity, particularly when people are unable 
> to 
> >> recognize or identify the traits of an enlightened person. 
> >> 
> > 
> >Cultural vanity might be considered trying to limit the unfamiliar to 
> >familiar terms. 
> 
> As might be trying to obfuscate the obvious with the unfamiliar. 
> 
> Wondering if there are other people who wonder if their is a demystical 
> school of practical enlightenment,
 
If there was, it would be eminently suitable for those new-agey, crystal 
carrying, cranio-sacrum adjusting, aroma therapizing wanderers out there, 
but probably not very useful for someone who is only lives in the practical 
world.
 
     Yours, 
     Dan M.
 
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:54:58 -0700 
From: Dan Margolis <margolisATnospamtransbay.net> 
To: Susan Carlson <divine_goddessATnospamhotmail.com>, 
 Kundalini Mailing List <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: Re: even more curious 
Message-ID: <353ED7B2.3C38BC27ATnospamtransbay.net> 
 
It seems to me that you have some strong opinions on how enlightenment 
should be explained.  You also seem to put great weight on the practical. 
You also seem to hint at a distaste for 'spiritual' things, because they 
often seem impractical.  Your questions seem less a deep reflection on what 
people are saying and more a reaction.
 
It might help to take time and try to recognize each opinion you are 
expressing.  After you have this opinion you might think, hmmm... this is 
what I think... It could be like this... It could not be like this... I 
don't know.
 
Each time you push in the manner you're pushing, you seem to be seeking an 
answer other people aren't giving you, or seeking validation for your 
opinions...  I refuse to validate any opinions, because an opinion is not an 
understanding.
 
You can continue your intellectual quest, but build a mindful practice and 
you'll be able to find the answers within you.
 
  Dan M. 
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:17:22 EDT 
From: MMeyers541 <MMeyers541ATnospamaol.com> 
To: 930359ATnospamaloe.ulima.edu.pe 
Cc: kundalini-lATnospamlists.execpc.com 
Subject: Re: Meditation April 23th 
Message-ID: <2ccfa55f.353edcf3ATnospamaol.com> 
 
In a message dated 98-04-22 23:00:35 EDT, you write:
 
<< he meditation, as you know is about world healing. Pass it on to your 
friends and let`s all get togeteher. 
  
 Love to you all! 
   
 Roberto 
 Lima, Peru. >>
 
Michele:  Hi Roberto, gosh I forgot--that's why I chose that date for my 
surgery!  Thx for reminding us.  Everybody be well.  Love, Michele 
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:30:36 -0500 
From: "Roberto Gonzales del Valle" <930359ATnospamaloe.ulima.edu.pe> 
To: "Kundalini List" <kundalini-lATnospamexecpc.com> 
Subject: RE: Knee Surgery on Thursday... 
Message-ID: <004601bd6e81$57527460$fbdb11cfATnospam930359ulima> 
Content-Type: text/plain; 
 charset="iso-8859-1" 
 
Hi Michele:
 
I am glad that you are getting there tomorrow. The healing day! My best 
wishes go for you also. I plea the list to think a bit about Michele in her 
surgery and Michele to take care on us while she is able to contact 
everything! So you can meditate from above for the world healing while your 
body is being healed aswell!
 
Greetings and lots of love
 
Roberto 
Lima, Peru.
 
P:S: What is the URL adress of Franz's website?
 
 
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