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Recieved: 2002/01/17 21:43
Subject: [K-list] Kabbages and Obsession
From: Ed

On 2002/01/17 21:43, Ed posted thus to the K-list:

At 18:16 17/01/02 +0000, you wrote:
> > Hi Everyone, I couldn't agree more with Sri Ramana Maharishi when he
>said,
> > "self-reform automatically brings about social reform. Confine yourself to
> > self-reform. Social reform will take care of itself".
>
>As far as I understand, Theravada buddhism has the same idea: no use trying
>to help others transform when you have not transformed and found
>enlightenment yourself. First go your own path towards enlightenment before
>focussing onto others - that will come come automatically afterwards.
>
>Jose

Dear Fellow K-abbages
My Beloved fluffy bunnies,

Most people here are self-obsessed
(I include my considerable ego as evidence)
They mistake neurosis and illness for
'spiritual advancement'
- that is OK fantasy is a way of coping :-)
Genuine mystics are involved in the
development of self and see part of that
self as other.
Enlightenment (such a big deal in Therevada)
becomes subservient in Mahayana
(to helping others and kindness)
and largely redundant in vajrayana
(to skillful behaviour and means of being)
and completely irrelevant in the YinYana
(a theistic Buddhism that does not fully exist)
What you have to ask yourself
is are you part of a personal, global
and real solution
or part of the problematic?
Well?

Peace and Love
A problem of Lobster

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