Weil did not limit her curiosity to Christianity. She was keenly interested in other religious traditions—especially the Greek and Egyptian mysteries, Hinduism (especially the Upanishadsand the Bhagavad Gita), and Mahayana Buddhism. She believed that all these and other traditions contained elements of genuine revelation.
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action ... — Simone Weil , LP, p. 72–3\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil No comment re: Vaj's "teacher", but this woman was quite extraordinary. >________________________________ > From: emptybill <emptyb...@yahoo.com> >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:14 PM >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi >Chivukula > > > >Well she was a Jewish girl who's beauty was in her intelligence. That's all I >dare say. > >Oh, you must mean Simone Weil ... "Every sin is an attempt to fly from >emptiness. " >No wonder you ended up Buddhist. Now I know that date of you initiation: 1941. > >"The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the >way through." >― Simone Weil > >"Now, this self is a dike, a divider, to keep these worlds from colliding with each other… Upon passing across this dike, therefore, a blind man turns out not to be blind, a wounded man turns out not to be wounded, and a sick man turns out not to be sick. Upon crossing this dike, therefore, one even passes from night into day, for, indeed, this world of Brahman is lit up once and for all." >-Chandogya Upanishad, 8.4.1 > > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > >> > >> > And please give the exact date of your initiation and all your advanced >> > techniques, this is requested by each application form, so you must know >> > it by heart now. And how was the weather on these day? Did it rain? How >> > old was your teacher, and how many initiations did your teacher have at >> > the time? Curious minds want to know. >> >> >> Well she was a Jewish girl who's beauty was in her intelligence. That's all >> I dare say. >> > > > >
