Guess you never practice anymore. That would explain a lot. The reference was to YS 3.34 ( or YS 3.35 depending on the version)
hridaye chitta samvit (on the heart - awareness of consciousness ) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@...> wrote: > > > > > > EB, sounds like Chandogya Upanishad, 8.1: > > > > emptybill: > > Yep, and Vyasa's commentary on the heart sutra points > > this out. > > > You're not even making any sense - the 'heart sutra' is > a Mahayana Buddhist work, 'Vyasa' is a legendary author, > and all the Upanishads came AFTER the historical Buddha. > > Go figure. > > Everyone knows that the Heart Sutra comes from Kushan > Kashmere in the 1st century A.D. > > It should be obvious, even to a casual reader, that MMY > got almost all his ideas about the perfection (siddhi) > of transcendental (emptiness) wisdom (prajna) from > Mahayana Buddhist sources, borrowed by Gaudapadacharya > Shankaracharya and Patanjali from Tantric Yoga Buddhism. > > According to Kelsang Gyatso, the 'Heart Sutra' contains > a mantra in the original Sanskrit, which explains in a > very short, condensed form, the essence of the Shunyata > Transcendentalism. > > 'Heart of Wisdom' > by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso > Tharpa Publications, 2001 > page 125 >
