Ken Wilbur, is that they guy who beats women?
----- Original Message ----- From: "yifuxero" <yifux...@yahoo.com> To: <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality > --Neither have become reconciled to the prospect of life in a subtle body > after death. Buddhism, otoh, does provide for that. > Nityananda's "Siddhaloka" is not part of Advaita Vedanta. MMY claims to > be a proponent of A.V. but that's nihilist: after Unity then physical > death, no more relative existence. > Buddhas otoh can exist in any number of transformation bodies. Siddhas > like Nityananda can live in Siddhaloka. > In Advaita Vedanta, Nothing! > > - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <willy...@...> > wrote: >> >> Vaj wrote: >> > The Marshy said they should. So they did... >> > >> Ken Wilber pretty much agrees with the Marshy >> when it comes to meditation - Wilber is known >> for practiceing meditation techniques on a >> daily basis. >> >> Wilber co-wrote a review of spiritual teachers, >> and seems to approve of the practice of TM. From >> what I've read, Wilber's parents started TM >> practice some years ago. >> >> Read more: >> >> 'Spiritual Choices' >> The Problems of Recognizing Authentic Paths to >> Inner Transformation >> by Dick Anthony, Bruce Ecker, and Ken Wilber >> Paragon House, 1986 >> >> According to Wilber, the states of consciousness >> include: waking, dreaming, dreamless sleep, and >> nondual. Marshy seems to agree with this. >> >> Apparently Wilber ascribes to the 'two truths >> doctrine' of Nagarjuna. For Wilber no >> metaphysical doctrine or apparent reality is >> true in an absolute sense: only formless >> awareness, "the simple feeling of being," exists >> absolutely. >> >> "And tell me: is that story, sung by mystics >> and sages the world over, any crazier than >> the scientific materialism story, which is >> that the entire sequence is a tale told by an >> idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying >> absolutely nothing? Listen very carefully: just >> which of those two stories actually sounds >> totally insane?" >> >> Work cited: >> >> 'A Brief History of Everything' >> By Ken Wilber >> Shambhala, 2007 >> Page 42-3 >> >> Links of interest: >> >> "Every deeply enlightened teacher I have known >> has been a Rude Boy or Nasty Girl." >> >> Ken Wilber: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber >> >> Dennis Genpo Merzel: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Genpo_Merzel >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
