To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/02/24 11:14
Subject: Re: [K-list] Enlightenment
From: Paul Perner
On 2001/02/24 11:14, Paul Perner posted thus to the K-list:
Cris Wilson wrote:
>
> >From: "Mike Pierce" <mike_pierceATnospamzensearch.net>
> >
> >Has anybody out there seeking for enlightenment ever had the balls to give > >up the whole thing even for a moment? You might have the strength to look
> >in a million places but can you throw in the towel. If you feel you have
> >and have come back to seeking did you reely quit
>
I never understood understood this thing with professional "seeking."
It's as though enlightenment is this hallowed prize... a glowing orb
stuck high up in a treetop... out of reach from the average person. And
you must read all the right books, seek all the right truths and
laboriously climb up the right branches (in the fear of failing and
falling) to obtain it.
I feel that enlightenment is not something you "get," but more something
you *come into.* And then you realize you were there all the time and
you can laugh at your self..... man, all the money I blew on those
books... they do look pretty on the self, though.
Question for the list: Who did that song that goes, "...and Oz never did
give nothing to the Tin Man, that he didn't already have..." ? I think
it was Seals and Crofts or Neil Youngblood... I'm not sure.
> ........
> I see that I am a slave.. a slave to enlightenment. And deep down I am
> pissed off. I read a quote.. it might be on this list it said "the truth
> will set you free, but first it will piss you off" That makes me feel good
> because Oh , im pissed off I must be finding the truth. And thus the ego
> gets fed and it is harder to give it up.
>.......
Awakening set me free. I'm still a slave, through... a happy slave to
the love and double hazelnut cappuccinos with a dash of cinnamon (!).
I also felt pissed off. Frustration is part of the picture.... part of
our human condition as tool users and makers. You're doing great.
>
> I am still filling a lot of gaping holes in the picture that I´m trying to
> understand, so if this seems like gibberish than I´m sorry.
>
> Cris
It's not gibberish at all, my friend... it's music to my ears... and now
I have that 70s song, "Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man..."
going though my head.... life is good.
Winter Blessings,
Paul
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