Tony/Freedom

[Guest guest]

> <snip> I

>am convinced that one can be spiritual and a

>meat-eater for example but I don't really feel one can

>be a meat-eater and achieve Moksha or Liberation, no

>matter the level of intellectual understanding. For

>Compassion and Ahimsa are the nature of the Self and

>cannot be learned only become.

>

>Love Tony.

 

Thanks for sharing your point of view, Tony.

I'm interested in the points you raise -

here's my way of resolving these issues.

I am not convinced that my nature

and the nature of All are separate. As it seems to me,

the nature of who I am cannot be learned *or* become.

>From my perspective, then, liberation is not only

not an intellectual understanding, but not an emotional

state, nor an act of becoming. Liberation is one's

"birthright", so to speak, in place before any thing

else is in place -- in place as we speak, and after

all this passes away. My view, then,

is not one that enables me to judge who can and cannot

be liberated (or "saved" for that matter), rather

one that sees all that is as the emanation

of Freedom Itself. Of course, this means that you,

as you speak your views, are as much an emanation of

this Freedom as I am!

 

Thanksgiving Blessings to You - whatever you're eating,

I hope there is love around and within all at the meal --

I'm leaving for mine as we speak --

Dan