Judy wrote:
Who here has been claiming the ego "doesn't exist"?? Who has suggested
enlightenment involves annihilating your individual consciousness? ? I'm
increasingly coming to think, Bronte, that you're defending your position
against a big bunch of straw men.,___
Bronte writes:
Judy, I want to start out by saying I find you extremely intelligent and
astute in your writings here. I'm pretty impressed with you. But I don't get
how you can ask such questions as this. That's why I haven't responded to your
similar posts before. Are you saying something here that I'm missing? I suppose
that's possible. But is it that you're missing something?
Ron and the various Neo-Advaitins are extreme examples of just this
philosophy you claim no one is claiming. Other Eastern teachers preach the same
messages but more subtly. It's couched in gentler terms than the stark
nihilists, but it's the same poisonous drink. If you can't see that, I suggest
it's because you're taken in by the fancy explanations they spin and their
impressive dharshans. I'm like the boy crying "the emperor has no clothes!" Of
course, you will see clothes if you buy into the mass hypnosis. I'm looking at
the dogmas and assumptions a different way, and calling a spade a spade. If I
don't see clothes on the emperor, I say so.
I shouldn't have to go through and dig out quotes of gurus that illustrate my
points. If you can't see the parallels, even though you're highly familiar with
Eastern writings, I don't think going to that trouble would cause you see the
connections any better than you do. Basically, we all see what we want to see,
what we are ready to see, based on where we stand beside "the elephant" of
reality.
We're all performing our own life experiment, side by side with other
experimenters. I can only tell you the findings my own experiment is yielding.
If those make no sense to you, I can only respect your right to follow your own
hypotheses to your own natural conclusions. And I will continue to listen with
interest and respect to whatever you may find.
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