--- In [email protected], "Sunyata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You'll have to visit me in person for the photos. You'll be > taking them by the way.
Cool, I guess, if you're the "lotusshaktigoddess" whose photo (non-nekkid photo) is on seemingly dozens of blogs, according to Google. If that's really you (a recent statistic indicates that something like 40% of photos posted by people on the Internet aren't really photos of them), then you look very nice for 49. I'm a little older than 49 myself, but people who have seen my photo think that I still look pretty good: http://tinyurl.com/28ddsq :-) Anyway, just to follow up a little on my previous reply, I'm a bit...uh...outspoken. When I called bullshit on the blurb you kinda repeated like a mantra, it was intended to indicate that I thought that the *blurb* was bullshit, not you. You might be -- that is still undetermined -- but I was commenting on the blurb: "It is not technique when the technique has truly been laid aside. This is where language doesn't suffice. Most of life is a trance and thus a search for techniques to find 'a way out.' But the way out is in." I call bullshit on blurbs like this for several reasons. The first is that they are non-provable and non-falsifiable. Someone is just *claiming* to live or act this way or to believe this. And in general, I follow the advice of a former spiritual teacher in regard to such claims: "Listen to what people say, but watch what they DO." Following that dictum, everyone I've ever met in my life who claims to have "laid aside techniques" had more techniques and recognizable habit patterns and thought patterns goin' on for them than those who don't spout such bullshit. This *includes* most of the NeoAdvaita teachers mentioned in followups to your posts. And I'm sorry, but "The way out is the way in" is less profound to me than "No matter where you go, there you are," and the latter was actually spoken by that great sage and master Buckaroo Banzai. :-) I have NOT been following these exchanges very carefully, but it seems to me that a lot of your responses have been "canned;" that is, you've used them before on one blog or chat forum or another, and that they actually *worked* for you there, because no one called you on them. As you may have guessed :-), a LOT of people on this forum are not terribly impressed or wowed by Newage (rhymes with 'sewage') canned bullshit. They had to put up with can after can after can of it in the TM movement, and some have opened a few cans of post-TM bullshit since they bailed on Maharishi and *his* canned bullshit. If you are the same person who posted on all those blogs, what I noticed in my quick scan was that on them you seemed to have a sense of humor. Some of the things you said there were spontaneous and NOT canned Newage bullshit. I, for one, would respond better to that kind of non-canned spontaneous humor; I tend to value humor over anything else. So if you're really interested in transcending all this petty anti-NeoAdvaita squabbling and gettin' down to some fun conversations, I'm game. Let's make an end run around all these people taking their pur- ported beliefs (or non-beliefs) so seriously and just chat and have fun. Works for me, anyway. And if it works for you and we wind up gettin' along, you can come to my little beach town in Spain and take nekkid pictures of me. I look just like the photo above. Really. No bullshit. :-)
