The report was on Hindu funeral methods and burning ghats not Buddhist. Perhaps the producers were inserting their own beliefs.
On 01/30/2013 09:11 AM, Share Long wrote: > You don't know where they got which idea? The one about gurus coming back > again and again? It seems similar to the bodhisattva vow. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:03 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Response to Turq's Ideas on Unstressing to > Steve > > > > On 01/29/2013 07:40 AM, Share Long wrote: >> I also think people like Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle got enlightened >> without having a practice. If such can be determined by their writing and >> actions. > Spillover from a prior lifetime? In other paths they are known as "old > souls." BTW, I was watching a Discover or History channel show on > funeral techniques around the world and they covered the burning ghats > in India. They mentioned something I had not heard before that moksha > was for the general public to move on but gurus should not take moksha > because they need to be kept around lifetime after lifetime to teach the > general public. I don't know where they got that idea though. > > >
