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   From: hollywoodlee@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/13/2010 4:29 PM, brian mitchell wrote:   
      
   > I reject your extreme yoking of suffering to awakening. People can have very   
   different casts of mind   
   > and different skillful attributes. Yes, a catastrophic psychic shock can   
   arrest the mad mind, but so   
   > can other things. And I reject your characterisation of self/ego as a   
   disease, seeing it more as a   
   > natural and necessary pre-metamorphic (chrysalis) stage in the development   
   of the mind --to be left   
   > behind, certainly, but not sacrificed or martyred.   
      
   Yeah, this resonates with my experience.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)