> > Sounds sadly like the death of > > consciousness-based education. > > Vaj: > Is there a type of education that > isn't consciousness-based? > Yes. Apparently you don't understand what the 'enlightenment tradition' is.
This is a set-up, right, Vaj? The enlightenment tradition of India is the belief in the human perfectibility of man. Consciousness-based education was founded in India by Shakya the Muni, the first historic yogin in India, and by Gaudapadacharya, the first Indian to systematically expound the Vedanta. All the Upanishadic thinkers were following the the enlightenment tradition and all were transcendentalists. The enlightenment tradition is based on the hypothesis that 'consciousness' is the ultimate reality and that everything else is a an appearance only, not real, yet not unreal. Read more: 'Discourses' On Mandkya Upanishad with Gaudapada's Karika' By Swami Chinmayananda Chinmaya Publication Trust, 1980 'Buddhist Thought' A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition By Paul Williams and Anthony J. Tribe Routledge, 2000 Chinmaya Publication Trust, 1980
