--- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Darshan can be explained just as effectively as a process > > of recognition. You sit with someone who is in a higher > > state of consciousness than you are. ALL of the aspects > > of that higher state of consciousness are already within > > you. And when they *see* themselves in another human > > being, they "wake up" and begin to become active in you. > > Darshan, given this interpretation, becomes a process that > > is initiated by the student's inner being, not by the > > teacher. I like the explanation more because it puts > > the responsibility for one's evolution back where I think > > it belongs, in the lap of the seeker. > > I relate to this darshan explanation as well. > Jeff
It's one of those things I came up with myself, only to later find that that's the basic definition of how the darshan phenomenon works in some traditions. The first time it hit me was when sitting in a room with Toni Morrison and Michael Ondatje discussing poetry and noticing that I was getting...uh...high, in *exactly* the same way I associated with sitting with spiritual teachers. A sense of expanded mind, more "circuits coming on line," that sorta thing. And I thought about it and said to myself, "Self, this feels like what you've always associated with darshan, but how likely is it that Toni Morrison and Michael Ondatje, however good writers they may be, are sitting there pushing out shakti or otherwise 'giving darshan?'" So then I started thinking about it and came up with the "recognition" theory. And a few months later ran into a spiritual tradition that has explained the phenomenon the same way for hundreds of years. It was like, "Duh...I should get out more." :-) Unc 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: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
