Michael wrote: > (btw Willy is right - Buddhism is most certainly not > nondualistic ) > Some forms of Buddhism may be nondual, but probably not original Buddhism, which split into eighteen sects. Most Therevade Buddhism is dualistic in nature, believing as it does in causation, a path to enlightement, and karma.
Much of Mahayana Buddhism in dualistic in nature, believing in celestial Buddhas and Bodhisatvas. Vajrayana Buddhism may be non-dulaistic, especially the 'conciousness only' school of Asanga. But if you read the above description of Gorakshanath, anyone can see that TM practice is derived from the nath tradition, and subsequently the Western transmision of the Trika tantrism of Kashmere and the Sri Vidya tradition of Karnataka. Marshy probably didn't ascribe to Adwaita non-dualism; he never said very much about Maya. Shankara's grand-guru was most probably a Buddhist. Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Subject: Matsyendranath - Fish Master of the Yoni Tantra From: Willytex Updated: 2/11/2005 http://tinyurl.com/39mltb "Listen, Parvati, to this highly secret one, Dearest. Ten million times have you wanted to hear this. Beauteous One, it is from your feminine nature that you continually ask me. You should conceal this by every effort. Parvati, there is mantra-pitha, yantra-pitha and yoni-pitha. Of these, the chief is certainly the yoni-pitha, revealed to you from affection." Forum: alt.meditation.transcendental Subject: Not just another tantric, mind control cult! Author: Willytex Updated: 07/15/2004 http://tinyurl.com/3cnyny In my opinion, Guru Dev was following the Nath Siddha path, a yogic sect; yogis who practiced the same meditation technique as us modern TM-Sidhas, a technique which was most likely invented by Matsyendranath, the famous inventor of Hatha Yoga, in the 9th century in Bihar or Bengal. However, I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Forum: alt.meditation.transcendental Subject: Phat! A magic word for protection? Author: Willytex Date: 08/15/2003 http://tinyurl.com/3aygz7 There are two main parampara of Japa Yogis: the authentic initiated right-hand Japa Yogi, and the self-initiated left-hand Japa Yogi, the latter sometimes called in India a 'bhogi'. A true right-hand Japa Yogi will always be japping silently with his right hand only, and always using the index and middle finger, placed inside a cotton bag held at the muldhara chakra.
