--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seekliberation" <seekliberation@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > Buck didn't say that this is your last chance for enlightenment ever. But > > when you drop the body, how long will you be without a nervous-system and > > gravity, 10 years, 50 years, 300 years, 500 years ? It depends on the > > circumstances and individual karma. In any case you'll be out of > > circulation for a long time without the ability to meditate. Therefore Buck > > is right, there is no time to waste. This is a fact. Which shouldn't > > produce any fear whatsoever, but urgency is certainly appropiate. > > first off...you're right, we don't really know how long we'll be out of > circulation, but my main point is that even if it takes us another 500 years > of being in this cycle of birth and death....so what? What is the concern?
Either we're talking past each other or you don't read what is written properly. I was mentioning 500 years as an example of how long you could linger on the other side WITHOUT a body and thus without the possebility to think your mantra. That's quite a long time though probably above average. And that's why there should be a certain ugency in this matter since noone really knows for sure how long it will take to be back in a body and be able to resume Sadhana. It's like we don't trust divinity to carry out its plan. The sense of urgency you're talking about....I'm not saying to not be spiritual, or ignore enlightenment, but introducing a sense of urgency is very contradictory to the state of consciousness we're aspiring to. Second...my general view is that I never trust or have any faith in any teaching or philosophy that introduces a sense of urgency towards anything. A philosophy, spiritual path or Guru that doesn't put value on the short time we have in each life to evolve and thus stress a certain amount of urgency, is a no-good vaste of time. If you need someone to rub your back or tell you what you like to hear then have a Thai-massage.
