--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > <snip> > > Just to clarify a bit -- in calling the cause of > > suffering "stories," I am not trying to denigrate the experience of > > suffering itself, which is certainly real enough -- merely > > attempting to point out that the suffering arises from self- created > > mental dramas which can be unraveled with a bit of inquiry/analysis > > (perhaps akin to Patanjali's "yoga is control of thought-waves of > > the mind"). > > Or perhaps not. What you're talking about is > psychology. Nothing wrong with psychology per > se, but it's my distinct impression that isn't > what Patanjali was into.
I am no expert on Patanjali, so I will try not to go out on a (yoga-) limb here, but if memory serves I believe I *have* seen a commentator or two (in Isherwood's version, "How to Know God," probably?) state that the vrittis, or thought-waves (*are* vrittis identical to thought-waves? Perhaps thought-patterns is more accurate), are indeed to be destroyed by introducing their opposites -- this would appear to be highly reminiscent of Byron Katie's method. And if BK's technique is "psychology," then psychology has now embraced a very potent enlightenment technique. > Also, I wonder if Buddha would have agreed that > "Life is what arises from self-created mental > dramas which can be unraveled with a bit of > inquiry/analysis." ;-) You would have to ask Buddha about that. I am certainly not going to speak for him. ;-) However, *I* would say rather that Life -- the emptiful Whole -- is what stands eternally and omnipresently revealed when we unravel our self-created mental dramas and thereby transcend suffering (while not transcending surfing). :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
