--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Replies interleaved below. > > > --- Gillam wrote: > > > > > > Just wondering, Judy, would you be interested in a live, > > > in-person satsang at any venue? > > > > Judy wrote: > > > > Do you mean satsang as in sit around informally > > with spiritual compatriots and yakking about > > experiences and stuff? Or do you mean a meeting > > led by a holy person of some sort? > > I define satsang as an inquiry into truth in the company of someone who's awakened to it. > This forum has pretty much disabused me of the notion that such a person would be in > any way holy, though.
I was using "holy person" as a sort of umbrella term to mean an established awakened teacher. > > Why? What is this get-Judy-to-a-satsang movement? > > Not on my part. I simply couldn't tell if your objection was with satsang, Fairfield or both. > With your willingness to pursue truth in this medium, I figured the problem was with > Fairfield, but I wanted to be sure. Well, I don't see it as a "problem" either way. It's just that Fairfield is not on my list of places I'd like to visit, and satsang is not on my list of things I'm particularly interested in doing. > I've read here that there's a big difference between having these discussions in person with > awakened people and doing it in writing like this. I assumed that this difference is what lay > behind L B's suggestion that you visit Fairfield. I'm sure there's a huge difference, and for those to whom it's important to engage in such discussions at the most profound levels, no doubt they could do a lot worse than attending Fairfield satsangs. But it's just not my bag, not part of my sadhana, so to speak. Chatting in electronic forums is fun, but I don't regard it as "pursuing truth" in any significant sense, at least not for me personally. If I had the opportunity to be in the relatively intimate company of (i.e., in a room with as opposed to in a big hall with), say, Maharishi or Mother Meera, and it was relatively easy for me to get to, I might well take it. But that would be more for the darshan than the satsang, if I can make such a distinction. I wouldn't exert myself to go see Amma, though, or any other "saint" I can think of offhand. *Maybe* Adi Da. (Obviously it's unlikely I'd ever get that opportunity, but just hypothetically, as a measure of my interest level.) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
