Hi Sandi: On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:27 PM, sandiego108 wrote:
> I don't feel yogis do it out of fear Sandi -- more a sense of > 'exploration' and "all possibilities". A Hitchhikers Guide to Kosmos. > what's so "all possibilities" about reading signs, and "helpful to know the signs" and having a "Guide"?
Once you're no longer a prisoner inside a body, it becomes more obvious.
what if all of the Hindu scriptures and Buddhist tracts and Christian records are incorrect?
Then they should be changed. Yogis take a more gnostic approach and instead rely on direct experience. The various texts which describe such phenomenon are merely firsthand descriptions from the POV of people with very few or no obscurations--a refined perceiving instrument. The texts such beings leave behind are memory devices to the people they shared their teachings with.
what if they don't work for you when you die? What if they were true for some, and aren't for you?
That's why it's good idea to try them out for yourself ahead a time, if you're lucky enough to receive such precious instructions and guidance from an experienced teacher! Otherwise it's like giving a 15- year old a car with no driving experience.
what if its an entirely different and incomprehensible paradigm for you when you die? what then? what you describe for me sounds like a lot of boundaries and fear, no matter who's religion is doing the describing. I'll wait and see, thank you; no guide necessary, or wanted.
Good luck!
