--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@> wrote: > > > > anybody ever see a cobra in meditation? A couple of years ago, > > while I was meditating, I suddenly saw a cobra slither out from > > under my arm chair, between my feet. It skeerd the crap out of > > me and I raised my feet off the floor and crossed them in the > > chair! On my six month course, another fellow I knew, used to > > have a cobra appear in most meditations and sway back n forth > > in front of him. > > I don't know exactly how to say this, but isn't > it supposed to be women who have subconscious > penis issues? > > :-)
Before anyone else comes rushing in to give me shit about this, my remark above was what we call in the trade a "cheap-ass joke." Notice the smiley at the end? It was ALSO, given my tendency to indulge in...uh ...double-entendres and wordplay, a statement of sorts about the nature of "reality." Same scenario. Different interpretations. Mike's, and possibly others' on this forum, might be to search for an interpretation that was some- how "cosmic" and fraught with meaning. If at all possible, "Vedic" (really Hindu) meaning. "Spir- itual" meaning. Mine was purely Western, and pretty much what any competent Western shrink would say, given the same scenario. So which is "better>" Which "correct?" Which "right?" My view is NEITHER. They're just different inter- pretations, that's all. Pure fuckin' speculation. Neither has ANYTHING to do with "reality" or what such visions might "mean," or whether they "mean" anything at all. There are some on this forum who feel otherwise. They seem to feel that *their* interpretation of any event is the one that is "better" or "correct" or "right." I cry bullshit. I think that pretty much everyone here -- including myself -- is just indulging in pure speculation, and that NOT ONE of us has any fuckin' clue as to the "real" nature of "reality." I further extend this statement to every spiritual teacher in human history. I don't think that ANY of them had any fuckin' clue, either. ALL of them were indulging in *exactly* the same kind of idle speculation, in search for "meaning" where possibly none lies. So shoot me. That's what I really believe. You believe whatever *you* want. What you choose to believe does not affect me in any way. What I choose to believe does not affect you in any way unless you choose to allow it to. And that's just the way the snake slithers.
