--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> 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." :-)
I would tend to believe a test by SBS. Not sure I would bet the farm on the test of a local Satsang leader. ------------------------ 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/
