Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-23 Thread Share Long
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex   Marek, You are granting Wiki-Willy an undeserved title. Willy is called Wiki because it is his main source of information. That makes him the anti-scholar whose pseudo-scholarship is proven every other post

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-23 Thread emptybill
heart. From: emptybill emptybill@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 2:36 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex  Marek, You are granting Wiki-Willy an undeserved title

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-23 Thread Richard J. Williams
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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-23 Thread emptybill
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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-23 Thread Richard J. Williams
EB, sounds like Chandogya Upanishad, 8.1: 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-23 Thread Richard J. Williams
emptybill: Guess you never practice anymore. There is nothing to 'practice' once you realized your true nature is enlightened from the very beginning when you were born. All you have to is *isolate* the prakriti and let your Light shine. I still meditate every day because that's just what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-22 Thread Richard J. Williams
marek: There are obvious and apparent influences, but I don't think you've made your case. Appareently what you have failed to understand is that stupas are an ancient form of mandala. The stupa represents the awakened mind, so Buddhism, representing the enlightenment tradition In India, is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-22 Thread marekreavis
Yes, Richard, I understand that you have come to the conclusion you state below and have stated many times in the past. I don't believe, however, that you have made a case that is convincing enough for someone else to reach the same conclusion. Or, more accurately, you haven't convinced me. A

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-22 Thread emptybill
Marek, You are granting Wiki-Willy an undeserved title. Willy is called Wiki because it is his main source of information. That makes him the anti-scholar whose pseudo-scholarship is proven every other post by his unwarranted and amateurish conclusions. What he is not telling you, because he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-22 Thread Michael Jackson
Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex   Marek, You are granting Wiki-Willy an undeserved title. Willy is called Wiki because it is his main source of information. That makes him the anti-scholar whose pseudo-scholarship is proven every other post by his unwarranted and amateurish conclusions

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-21 Thread marekreavis
Richard, you wrote: So, the Sri Vidya tradition is similar to the Trika of Kashmere. The Kashmiri Pandits still worship the triratna symbol. Buddhism in Kashmere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_kashmir Kashmir Shaivism resembles Hindu tantra, and both have as their key symbol the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-21 Thread Richard J. Williams
marek: I appreciate your scholarship, Richard, but what is the actual connection that you premise your belief? So, you've noticed that the MUM Golden Dome is sperical in shape with an umbrella on top, and surrounded by a fence! LoL! Architecture and graphical evidence: So, based on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-21 Thread marekreavis
That's quite a lot of assumptions, Richard, that collectively still don't add up to become what we *know* about Buddhism being the source of the Sri Vidya tradition, and TM. Human beings spending their time in meditative contemplative processes are likely to have come to similar internal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-21 Thread Yifu
Actually, Buddhists traveled to the Mayan Empire and constructed the Observatory at Chitzen Itza: Here's proof: (the similarity between the Observatory and a Buddhist Stupa): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Chich%C3%A9n_Itz%C3%A1_Mayan_observatory.jpg ... The Buddhists were

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-21 Thread Richard J. Williams
marek: ...still don't add up to become what we *know* about Buddhism being the source of the Sri Vidya tradition, and TM. Well, it looks most of our readers know next to nothing about the origins of the TMer philosophy and practice. The mandala can be found in the form of the Stupa; the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-21 Thread Richard J. Williams
Yifu: Actually, Buddhists traveled to the Mayan Empire and constructed the Observatory at Chitzen Itza: Here's proof: (the similarity between the Observatory and a Buddhist Stupa): You are incorrect, Sir. It was ancient aliens that constructed the Chitzen Itza as well as Pumapunku down

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-20 Thread Richard J. Williams
emptybill: ...even though no Buddhists use the Shri Yantra. ROTFLMAO!!! So, what do we know, fer sure? Rajaram Mishra, later to become Swami Bramhananda Saraswati, was born on Thursday, 21 December, 1868 in village Gana, which is close to the city of Ayodhya, in North India. Rajaram was