> I don't remember who it was that claimed yoga was > exclusively Indian, > According to Eliade, writing in the definitive book on yoga, Yoga is unique to India. Eliade is a famous author, an expert on Yoga, Shamanism, the history of religion.
Work cited: 'Yoga: Immortality and Freedom' by Mircea Eliade Princeton U. Press, http://tinyurl.com/2bt8sn > and my question was is the realization that Purusha is > distinct from Prakriti tantamount to the realization > that "There is a void outside existence which, if entered > into, englobes itself and becomes a womb?" > There's no "void" out there, Angela, that's just a misnomer. According to Nagarjuna, the state of Nirvana is "devoid of own being" - that's different from there being an actual void somewhere in the universe. The "womb", according to Vasubandhu, is the "storehouse of conciousness" - from the conciousness only school of Vijnanavada: there is only conciousness; nothing outside; nothing out there. All experience is conditioned by conciousness - there is no other. > The obvious answer is, "yes." That statement comes from > William Blake who practiced no technique and had no > indoctrination on consciousness etc. He lived in the late > eighteenth century in an intellectual milieu that had > invented empiricism. And yet he understood states of > consciousness to the point of clear descriptions of > epistemology in each of those states--which he could not > have done without experience. > Maybe so. > Any of us can talk a good shtick about enlightenment. > No, not anyone: from what I've read, Lon P. Stacks is almost totally ignorant of enlightenment: "I thought I'd been strapped to the bed in preparation for Bevan to come in and impregnate me with a baby guru who would take Maharishi's place when he dropped the body. What I saw was Bevan over me, which was all delusion anyway. During the guided imagery, Bevan's face had turned into my father's face. (Bevan had been like a father figure to me.) The therapist interpreted this literally, that I had a real memory of seeing my father over me as he was raping me." - Lon P. Stacks Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: Willytex Date: Sun, Oct 29 2000 7:06 pm Subject: Stacks and Knapp http://tinyurl.com/3d2hfj
