--- In [email protected], Bronte Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think the Christians are as scary though. There's not the total dissolution of self in God like there is with the Easterners. Back ages ago, the Christians were certainly on a par with this, with their self-denial and extreme monasticism business. Now the Indians are taking the lead with the same sick messages. IMO, of course, with all due respect to yours. - Bronte
I'm not at all devotional, so it ain't my message, sick or otherwise. But I don't think it's anybody *else's* message either, to be perfectly frank. I think it's another straw man, a misreading on your part. In any case, my point wasn't that the fundie Christian "possession" by Jesus was scary, but that they don't seem to be able to recognize how similar it is to what they (and you) object to about mantra meditation. > authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Bronte Baxter <brontebaxter8@> > wrote: > <snip> > > At the start of this thread, you quoted Ramana Maharishi on the > value of letting "His name," the name of a god, not only permeate your > meditation but every moment of your life, every impulse of your > thought, the very fabric of consciousness. This is outright possession. > This is a taking over of your individual consciousness by another > entity, by the god whose name you repeated. This is not experience of > Brahman, however they may dress it to be so. > > Funny thing is, this is the same argument fundie > Christians make against mantra meditation, yet it > seems as though in their own devotional practice, > they're just substituting "possession" by Jesus > for "possession" by a god.
