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UT |
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28-Feb-2007-08:40:17 |
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Spiritual Daffynitions |
Enlightenment. The normal state of life, something that every human being on the planet lives on a daily basis, without realizing it.
Enlightened Teacher. A normal human being who has realized what most of the people around him or her have not. What they *do* with that realization, and how ordinary or how special they claim to be as a result of simply realizing what has always already been present -- for them and for everyone they interact with -- seems to shape how history will regard them *as* an enlightened teacher.
Spiritual Practice. The belief that there is somewhere one has to "go" or something one has to "do" to realize the always-already-present nature of their own enlightenment.
Evangelism. The belief in some that their particular spiritual practice -- the "going" and the "doing" that they consider necessary to realize their always-already-present enlightenment -- is important enough that they must convince others to "go" the same route and "do" what they do. Synonym: self importance.
Integrity. Practicing evangelism and being up front about it.
Illusion. Practicing evangelism and feeling that one has to hide it.
Meditation. A good thing. A mechanism for realizing that which should have been obvious from the start, one's always-already-present nature as enlightenment, and as silence.
Silence. Another good thing, far more productive than all the "going" and "doing," and far more eloquent.
:-)
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