Guest guest Posted June 10, 1999 Report Share Posted June 10, 1999 Entire confessional texts and scriptures go past my eyes, but never is the word enlightenment seen. To me it's a generic term such as 'Eastern Spirituality'. So it's not a word to which I give much attention at all. The word 'enlightenment' (or even the term "Eastern Spirituality") is a very distant mountain whose shape many recognize, as they would Fuji through a mist. And even as Gene Poole painstakingly points out what is required to 'hear' correctly, the vision of a mountain in a haze must be 'seen' correctly. To see it correctly is, first of all, to know that it is not the feelings it evokes. Mt. Fuji is not romance, thrill, foreign travel, an exotic past life, life under the volcano. If it is seen as those, it is not being seen correctly, radically. Those feelings are the mist before the mist, and the mist is well before the mountain. To truly hear or see anything, the layers of mist must be recognized. And there are seemingly endless layers of mist. The Skandhas are the mist makers. So proper seeing of Mt. Fuji must take place in consultation with the Skandhas. Doing that, one will deconstruct the Mountain. First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. Thank you, Gene, for your work in pointing people home and for giving us a pair of roller blades to facilitate our trip. I hope I look as good as I feel taking the banked corner of the present discourse. glad i got knee and elbow pads, Jerry __ Nondual Digest (in affiliation with Nonduality Salon) "We pick the best of the day's postings, so you don't have to wade through a mountain of email!" Click below to : <//nondualdigest> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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