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Subject: [K-list] Anatomy of Enlightenment
From: elargonauto
On 2003/09/05 20:44, elargonauto posted thus to the K-list:
Anatomy of Enlightenment
Yesterday I received the book Spiritual Enlightenment : The Damnedest
Thing and couldn´t stop until I finished it. It is full of precious
information and best of all, it gives some practical information about the
enlightenment process. I have chosen the parts of the books where the author
describes his process of enlightenment and had ordered them chronologically.
Besides, I have never laugh so much reading a book since my first Terry
Pratchet´s books. :)).
I think that just with this, one can make a clear and realistic idea of
how this process really is. I hope you enjoy it.
This book can be found here ( this is the publisher so it is
cheaper and faster ) ...
http://www.wisefoolpress.com
-- The author, make emphasis in the concept of the First Step
after wich there is a process of intense fight and struggle ....
" When I say this, I don´t mean that it only takes two years from the
frist spark of spiritual longing. I mean two years after the point when the
process of awakening actually begins; the primary epiphany, the First Step."
pag. 24
" You´ve spent a few years fighting battle after battle, each
more grueling than the one before ... " pag. 33
" The next two years were spent in a state of burning obsession. I quit my
job, dumped my belongings, and moved from Chicago to a small town in Iowa.I
scoured bookstores and took full advantage of the local library´s statewide
lending program. I bought a computer and spent hours every day hunched over
the keyboard trying to express the truth ... I severed all ties -- no job,
no friends, no family ... I did nothing else. I had no other thought. " pag.
66
" I will obtain the Ultimate Truth and Ultimate Reality" ... " That is the
ultimate aim of my life in this world -- wether my body may remain with me
or go to pieces. My bones and flesh may go into complete annihilation or
remain with me; I shall obtain the True Form of the Universe. Through
innumerable incarnations, goo results; I have obtained a human body. I will
not lose this golden opportunity and will certainly obtaine samadhi and the
Real Form of Consciousness. Calamity may come or go, mountains may break
upon my head, but I will not leave my promise to obtain nirvanam." pag. 97
-- Finally he reached the point of nondual understanding but there was
still a long way ahead ...
" And then, one day there is it. Nothing. No more enemies, no more
battles." ... "There´s nothing left to contend against and nothing left that
must be done, and there will never be anything that must be done ever
again." pag.33
" And then one day after a couple of years of this ( look the previous
paragraph from pag. 66) I was suddenly done. Just like that: Done. ...
Getting the hang of this new state, however, would take me another decade".
pag.66
" Even then, it´s very possible that you don´t know what you are or where
you are." ... " In novels you see freshly converted vampires wondering what
their new status entails. < Am I a vampire or just nuts?> ... < Am I
immortal? How do I verify it> < What´s true and what´s myth?>. It can be
like that. I´ve heard that the Zen guys say it takes ten years to get the
hang of it ... " pag. 33
" I don´t operate at the level of belief. I might guess that there never
more than fifty truth-realized beings on earth at any moment, and I might
suspect that most of them have the sense to keep their mouths shut about it,
but what I know is that none of them became truth-realized except through a
slow and agonizing process of self-annihilation." pag.140
" And what comes after? Well, as I understand from practitioners of Jnana
Yoga who have spoken to me of it, (my apologies to them and anyone else
whose teachings I´m distorting in this book), one emerges from that ten-year
period of assimilating as a jnani -- one who knows." pag.33
-- Here are some more interesting paragraphs related with the theme ...
-- A final note about the process of elightenment ...
" I´ve been asked if I´d do it all over again if I had the choice, but it´s
not something I chose in the first place. ... It´s more like you are walking
along a mountain path that suddenly turns to mud and you find yourself
hurtling at breakneck speed into the unknown and before too long, hurtling
at nreakneck speed into the unknown becomes your reality. And then, one day,
equally iwthout warning, you´re launched into empty space and, before too
long, empty space becomes your reality." pag.67
-- Rigid Ego ...
" Rigid ego can scuttle the ship before it gets clear of the harbor. I´ve
watched mcuh smarter ships fatally on the rocks because they were too full
of themselves to release control." pag.200
-- Devotion ...
" Is that what people like Sonaya or, you know, devoutly religious people
are doing?"
" Very much so. Basically, the act of faith in something other than self
allows you to release the tiller .. to surrender. Whatever the reason for
doing it, whatever name you give to the new steering agent or agency, it´s
going to be a very positive change because it´s going to be the infinite and
unerring intelligence of the universe that takes over." pag.133
"So, giving oneself over to a high power ...?"
" Higher, lower, whatever. The giving over is the crucial factor.It doesn´t
matter if it´s God, or country, or the carving of a walking stick." pag. 249
( the continuation is very good :) ).
-- The carbon copy theory ...
" The misconception about mimicking elightenment as a way of becoming
anlightened can be seen anywhere. If you want to be an elightened guy -- the
thinking goes -- act lik an enlightened guy. ... that´s how you become a
fruitloop." pag.87
"... I myself amd elightened and I posses effortless non-attachment. ...
It´s just something that came with the deal -- a by product. There are many
by-products of enlightenment, but cultivating them, no matter how devoutly,
would never actually bring about elightenment." pag. 80
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