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Dear Linda,

 

On Mon, 10 May 1999 12:30:23 Linda Callanan wrote:

>As I read your post a few things came to my mind. By the time one becomes a

>Bodhisattva all has already been sacrificed, I would think the consciousness

>is already so elevated that it matters not where one is hanging out. When I

>first started my journey all I wanted was out of this >earth hell

 

Thank for your reply.

 

Your words ring very true and do move me a lot.

 

Strange thing was, I never thought of any place

on earth on anywhere else

as

hell until I had a taste of non dualism

and saw the suffering in others. I was privileged

enough to lead a life protected from suffering.

>and didn't

>much care how it came about - after a while I began to realize that

>liberation was no longer important merging with God or Self or however one

>perceives it was what had become important and I was pretty peaceful

>wherever I happened to be. At the level of a bodhisattva one is non-dual so

>therefore helping others is not really helping others .

 

I agree with you on that. I understand enlightenment is

not attained until all levels of the ego or I are

shed.

 

That has far from happened yet, so I'm still in the

process of working it all out, but it takes time.

 

The first time I heard of non dualism

as an ipso facto concept relating

and not one presented by

ppl who had taken too much LSD in their time

was 8 weeks ago.

>I used to feel the weight of failure in my life until one day someone said

>to me there is no failure as failure is simply an opportunity waiting for

>you down the road that statement shifted my perspective and a huge amount of

>guilt was gone. The destination of the journey is not what is important it

>is the journey itself and feeling failure just inhibits the joy of the

>journey.

 

Thank you for your kind words and thanks for sharing.

 

I do think it is important to see events as processes

and not goals, but some lessons really do take it all

out of you.

 

Learning is important

 

I am still in the process.

 

 

Best regards,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

 

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