--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@...> wrote: > > turquoiseb: > > Carlos Castaneda on self-importance and petty tyrants > > Everyone knows that Castaneda and Rama got most of > their ideas from reading books like the Bhagavad Gita > and the Ramayana epic. Some of these ideas they wrote > about are almost pure Buddhism and Hinduism. In the > latter case, Rama got most of his stuff from Blavatsky. > > But, neither was apparently a real warrior. Go figure.
Richard, everyone who's been here a while knows that you're a know-nothing troll who shouldn't be paid any attention to at all. But for the benefit of possible lurkers or newbies who have not yet figured this out and might actually *believe* this horseshit, I will correct you. NOTHING could be further from the truth that Castaneda based the stuff in his books on Indian scriptures or concepts. His "Warrior's Way" teaching really IS based more on Yaqui concepts that he admittedly might have stolen from real Mexican shamans. But these concepts have almost nothing to do with Eastern teachings. The entire emphasis is on *Life In The Relative*, and living it as well and as successfully as possible. There is no concept of enlightenment, no concept of reincarnation, and above all no concept of renunciation or withdrawal from the world. It's a very, very, very pragmatic set of teachings, having to do with life here in the real world, and how to make that life work as successfully as possible. While there ARE concepts of saving and storing energy for the purposes of exploring different levels of life ("Separate Realities," to use his term), there is NO sense of "evolution" or progress towards some Woo Woo goal of enlightenment or liberation as it is thought of in New Agey versions of Hindu and Eastern teachings (read "TM"). In his view, ya get out of life pretty much what you put into it -- no karma, no past-life influences, no astrological influences, certainly no S-V influences, and above all no gods, goddesses, or other beings whose asses you have to kiss to "evolve" or have nice things happen to you. Get some smarts, dumbass. If you *ever* read Carlos Castaneda, it must have been back during a period when you were seriously stoned, because you missed pretty much all of the major points of what he was about. :-)