Diane Musho Hamilton - "Enlightenment and Evolution"
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Spirit gives us all life and lives through us when we are centered in awareness. We observe life living us and everything that we do is in balance. There are no mistakes. In this state questions are answered before they are asked. You just know. There are no problems, there is no sin. You must experience this different way of living to know it. Everything else is just thinking and goes nowhere.
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your eternal self is not your thoughts and prejudices. that much is obvious. there is much to love and respect and cherish, even in an individual who seems to be close-minded in some surface ways.
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enlightenment, emptiness does not change, back to the drawing board
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It's great to be in the presence of enlightened beings and then you realize their homophobic. I'm paraphrasing of course but this is the strangest buddhist teaching i've heard.
In integral theory where she is coming from in this dialogue, Ken Wilber uses developmental stages to describe the unfolding evolutionary process of consciousness. What she meant is that someone can be enlightened in the formless sense yet still be narrow in the world of form by say being homophobic, or ethnocentric. The Daili Lama for example does view homosexuality as a sin Hard to really explain in a short box here but she didn't say anything really that strange if you understand the context
Glass2007 3 years ago 3
hard for me to get it though... i just cannot figure out an enlightened being being homophobic... i think i haven't quite got it yet. i hope that is not to be used as an excuse for prejudicial behaviour or exclusion or less acceptance by anyone... otherwise love would not be so unconditional, would it?
evertonlucero 3 years ago