AMEN--Suicide, continued

[Guest guest]

AMEN.

 

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The universe is already enlightened.

Where is this imaginary center

of self that is trying to get enlightened,

or imagining whether enlightened people

think they should stay alive or not

stay alive?

 

Regardless of what enlightened people

think, life is life, the universe is

the universe.

 

As the universe and enlightenment are

not-two -- what is there you have to decide

about living or dying, when

you are all the time everywhere and

nothing?

 

Dan

[Guest guest]

---- Original Message -----

<elizabethwells2001

<Nisargadatta >

Tuesday, May 08, 2001 11:05 AM

AMEN--Re: Suicide, continued

 

Hiyall,

 

> AMEN.

 

Here I am playing the devil's advocate

and by the way El, are you a devoted flagwaver ?

-Amen - tends to convey a since of finality,

punto, finished. Can it, any other word

or any entity, for that matter, capture or

experience reality - the unitary movement of life.

 

> The universe is already enlightened.

> Where is this imaginary center

> of self that is trying to get enlightened,

> or imagining whether enlightened people

> think they should stay alive or not

> stay alive?

 

It is the imaginary being, the I-thought

trying to become enlightened and stay

alive .

 

" People tend to neglect the illusory reality

of the world and the pseudo-entity : the I-thought

and get themselves into all sorts of trouble with the world "

-From a Taoist teaching.

 

Best

~dave