--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 17, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Patrick Gillam wrote: > > --- TurquoiseB wrote: > >> > >> I never think of such inter- > >> actions with teachers in terms of darshan or > >> transmission; it's not as if they were really > >> *doing* anything. All that was necessary was to > >> be in their presence and then "recognition" took > >> over. In them I could *recognize* attributes of > >> myself that I was not using, and they were. Same > >> with some of the geographical power places. > > > > Makes me think of how Fairfield's Wednesday evening > > satsang works. > > Like earthworms maybe? > > "Masters of old lashed out at those who claimed to be > enlightened yet refused to be tested, calling them > "earthworms living in the slime of self-validated > satori"." > -Philip Kapleau Roshi > > How many were tested by their teachers? would be my > question--but I think I already know the answer.
Well, duh. The "tests" were devised by those who were protected their followings. Whether or not they had any veracity depends entirely on whether one believes the creator of the "test." *Exactly* like "TM science." :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
