[FairfieldLife] Re: Why TM teachers cannot get Shankara's teachings

2014-04-18 Thread LEnglish5
Nor need they be. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote : TM teachers are instructed within a yogic-advaita framework - one that underpins their understanding about meditation and reality. Without exposure to Shankara's teachings and the traditional Upanishad

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why TM teachers cannot get Shankara's teachings

2014-04-18 Thread emptybill
Don't worry - you needn't be.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why TM teachers cannot get Shankara's teachings

2014-04-18 Thread cardemaister
FWIW, I seem to recall having seen tattvamasi (that's how it's spelled in DN, that is, without any spaces between the individual words) read as 'tattvam asi' , something like '(you) are the truth'. Be it as it may, the personal pronoun (tvam) is not necessary, because the verb form (asi)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why TM teachers cannot get Shankara's teachings

2014-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/18/2014 3:00 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Don't worry - you needn't be. As a TM teacher you should be worried. Shankara is just a re-statement of Mahayana Buddhism with the added element of illusion or maya thrown in to confuse people like you. Go figure. Excerpt from Mahayana Sutra

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why TM teachers cannot get Shankara's teachings

2014-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/18/2014 3:37 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: FWIW, I seem to recall having seen tattvamasi (that's how it's spelled in DN, that is, without any spaces between the individual words)read as 'tattvam asi' , something like '(you) are the truth'. Be it as it may, the personal pronoun (tvam)