> I am also amazed by the guffaws that RWE's "transparent eyeball"
> elicits. I can't imagine a more compelling image for a healthy
> negation of the ego. Since RWE's message of "self-reliance" is often
> misinterpreted as being the forerunner of today's "greed is good," it
> is important to focus on the *loss* of self that RWE speaks of along
> with his feeling of being part of something greater: "... all mean
> egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see
> all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am
> part or particle of God."
>
> Write this off as Mellow Yellow (quite rightly) if you wish, Doug, but
> I think RWE's transparent eyeball could see the way to a socialistic
> future for the U.S.
Very Buddhist, too. RWE is often noted as an early American Buddhist-in-spirit.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________
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