Guest guest Posted July 8, 1999 Report Share Posted July 8, 1999 Dear Greg, MU. With Love, Tim At 04:46 PM 7/8/99 -0400, you wrote: >Greg Goode <goode > >At 11:49 AM 7/8/99 -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > >>> Q: Is there any such thing as an enlightened individual? >> >>No, absolutely not. There cannot be an enlightened individual, as >>individuality disappears upon enlightenment, to be replaced by the >>Universal or Absolute. An "enlightened person" is essentially God walking >>around in a body/mind complex. > >This sounds very exciting at first glance, but can it really be the way you >describe it? > >That is, if individuality really disappears, then it must really exist the >first place. But you know, from Advaita Vedanta, that if anything REALLY >exists, including maya or avidya, then it can't NOT exist. So, according >to that line of thinking, nothing can disappear. > >Continuing with the same line of inquiry, nothing can replace something, >because for the new thing (Universal/Absolute) to be present "after," it >can't have been absent in the first place. > >Also, how can God be in a body/mind? Is God more in some places than >others? Actually, for God to have any relationship at all (other than >identity) with body/minds, then there have to be body/minds separate from >God. Are there such things? For example, to be able to say anything like >the following, there must be God the body/mind existing separately: > > God is in the body/mind. > God pervades the body/mind. > The body/mind appears in God's awareness. > >One way to say it that avoids many of these problems is that there is no >enlightenment, no individual, no enlightened individual, and no >unenlightened individual. All there is, is light. > >--Greg ----- Visit The Core of the WWW at: http://www.eskimo.com/~fewtch/ND/index.html Music, Poetry, Writings on Nondual Spiritual Topics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 1999 Report Share Posted July 9, 1999 At 03:18 PM 7/8/99 -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: >Dear Greg, > >MU. > >With Love, Can't add to or take away from that!! Love, Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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