A Nice Distinction

[Guest guest]

Wim-ji & Friends,

 

Wim says:

> Compare this distinction to a seed that may "know" in its seed state what it

> will look like in its flower state. Enlightenment is like that knowing, the

> actual growing into that flower is the realization process.

 

eric says: a nice distinction, Wim, and I think a good one. I'm guessing that

you are familiar with Gene's new site Open_Source_Spirit , also on .

While the process has yet to begin, he started it with the premise that the

verbal concepts that lock us in to a narrow vision can be expanded. I think

you're expansion of the "enlightenment" and "realization" experience is one

that should be taken up there. Perhaps, if it were, the process that was

advertised as the generating impulse to start yet another site will start to

be "realized"( in yet another use or that term, heh, heh, heh.).

 

I have some thoughts on the same subject, they may run parallel to yours, or

may, in fact. be the same as yours, who knows? I've begun to ponder the

notion of a new site myself, as from my point of view, after 3 years of daily

lurking/contributing, to a number of spiritual/advaita sites, there is a vast

subject, the veritable "invisible Gorilla in the room", which is not being

dealt with.

 

More anon.

 

yours in the bonds,

eric

[Guest guest]

Thanks Eric,

 

I am not planning at the moment to participate in more lists, I keep to

Harsha's and Adyashanti's Satsanghs, but you are free to copy anywhere what

you just quoted.

 

Funny, I always had a strong feeling that the two of us are very close

together in understanding... It may just be the habit of the "~Mooshoos and

~Oh Nos" to always come up with "...but look at it from the other side."

 

Remember the story I once wrote of the couple who were ready to buy a new

car and that the husband decided that his wife could pick any of the two

colours they both loved equally. She picked the metallic burgundy after she

threw a coin and when she came home the husband said (a bit gripingly), "Why

did you not take the other one, I thought you liked it better?"

The moral is we are so used to always come up with the other viewpoint...

The wife told me that if she would have come home with the teal colour that

he would have said, "I thought you would have chosen the other one..."

 

Anyway, in my previous note to you, I asked you about why "yours in bonds".

I genuinely do not know what you mean by that... it has puzzled me for a few

years now...

 

Wim

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