Guest guest Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 Randy: The ego is the sum of all our thoughts and emotions. Enlightenment is not the same as not having an ego. If one is alive and functioning in the world, one has an ego. Enlightenment is not identifying with the ego. This state can come and go, according to my personal experience, and I am told this state can be permenent, but am not experienced with that (yet). NonDualPhil , Pedsie2@a... wrote: > Ummon said, " A word without meaning > does its job even before it's uttered, > but you go around chattering, showing > you don't know what to do with yourself. " > > " Not knowing what to do with yourself, " > it is not being satisfied with your life, always > thinking, talking, seeking solutions to > problems which are not there. Dissatisfaction > equals selfhood, and it's created by our own > chatter. When for whatever reason searching > for satisfaction, for enlightenment stops, then > the chatter dies away, and the silence of seeing, > and doing without a sense of self is there. An interpretation: In an old rut with deeply cut walls of existence and nonexistence stands a blind and deaf man who wishes to be dead while alive with a box called silence held in his hands. The man believes the box contains life. He sings a dirge in an eerie voice born of self-inflicted infirmities: " the mute no one goes the right way " as he holds tightly the lid of the box with both thumbs. The children listen, watch and then laugh as life cannot be captured in a box or a way and quickly turn and run off to play. The lamenting blind and deaf man hears and sees no one and continues droning on in his plaintive song. He is happy as he is. Lewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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