Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yet another theory

[Llundrub]

And some maybe enlightened. But as it is, Irmely, I am just sceptical about our sense of individuality and self. And if you read the Bhagavad Gita, it is exactly what Krishna says to Arjuna, when he refuses to kill his own relatives. Krishna says: I have already killed them. Besides that, brain research indicates, that decissions are already taken in the brain, *before* we become aware of them, and own them my our 'individuality' As I see it, modern man is addicted to a cult of individuality. ----I can see what you say. But then there are other ways of seeing it. The Tibetans say that we are a mirror of pure awareness and within that mirror different impulses exist, which are also maya but which have some conventional reality just as all appearances. In that conventional framework there are six lokas which include pretty much all our thoughts. That is to say that our thoughts spring from one or another of six coexisting lokas from the demonic to the angelic, with everything in between. The cool thing about Tibetan Buddhism and Bon are that they seek to satisfy all the six lokas beings in order to pacify them and not excise one or the other loka as bad and unworthy of affection. To that aim, when one does purification practices the negative energies flow to the lower lokas and fill them up with food. The demonic beings are satisfied.  The purer or more rare energies rise and satisfy the devic realms and they are satisfied. The human body contains all these impulses, and as such is a temple of everything. To become a channel of one loka or another is imbalanced, especially when a godlike loka co-opts a demonic and uses the demonic as its means. We are humans first, and should act like one.  That means living a balanced and respectful existance.   One can transcend the authorship of action and perceive the absolute, and yet still be driven through one or more predominant realms of method.  This is why training and wisdom are very necessary.   It is very hard to remember the transcendental reality when the demonic is possessing one.  One can be an awesome practitioner but still get caught up.  It happens all the time because there are powerful demons who have had lifetimes to perfect their art. Those demons are our samsaric vrittis which compell us to recreate the conditions for our falling over and over again.  We think we have no demons but just for the sake of argument try making a sacrifice to the absolute. And see the possessive tendencies scream.  Just try it. And you'll see that the demonic lives on.  Give fifty bucks pointlessly to a homeless person without any hope of return, and watch the inner demons drag their clutches through your entire brain and body.    We are possessed by the possessive tendencies.  In a being like Maharishi he is possessed by some godlike deities or major auras. This is not an intellectual thing. These impulses of creative intelligence (and demons are very creative too) are hard to sort out.  One ca sit back and be a mouthpiece for any and all of them, or one can still use human characteristics of discrimination and wisdom.   I really can't judge Maharishi. The more I rail at him the more I sometimes just have to wonder what the dilly? I am fortunate in that I actually have no real possessions to call my own never having even had a bank account at age fourty.  I own nothing except my extensive collection of religious objects.  All the nice things around me are really owned by my wife. True, I am possessive of her, and she is my biggest bond in this life, but it could be alot worse. For this reason, if I may be smug, I actually am fairly free of attachments, and free of material ability and concern. (For the most part) In other words, my possessive demons are fairly pacified.  So when I give things away I see the demons screech as their voices are clear. They sound alot like Maharishi. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.