On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:06 PM, maskedzebra wrote:
RESPONSE: Not a single person in my lifetime has demonstrated impeccably and infallibly that such a "ground of all being" even exists. That is, if I am to go by his/her claim to become the embodiment of such an irreducible level of reality. In fact, I would go further: I have not observed a single person who even gives evidence that they have made contact with such a fundamental form of reality. For me the "home of all the laws of nature" is a metaphysical fiction. Sure, the EXPERIENCE seems to verify this reality (via TM), but, given how wonderfully convincing one's initial experiences are of TM (the auguring of everything MMY promises), the final pay-off (nothing to show for it, an extraordinarily disappointing trajectory of 'progress' in one's 'evolution' over decades of doing TM), logically forces one to conclude: THESE EXPERIENCES ARE FALSE; that is, they DO NOT COINCIDE WITH REALITY. There IS no such thing as Enlightenment.
Well perhaps for the TM system, which seems to induce novel forms of psychosis and ego inflation, but you cannot exclude every awakening tradition, can you?
