--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 3/2/06 3:30 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > As far as I can tell, Vaj is misinterpretting/over-interpretting some > > text taht talks about how even a nail driven into one's hand won't > > takethem out of samadhi. But that's the definition of CC. Screaming > > isn't relevant to witnessing. > > He seems to feel that a fully enlightened person should be able to go into a > state in which one would be unaware that the nail had been driven. In other > words, senses completely shut down or withdrawn. I'm not convinced that that > ability is a necessary criterion of enlightenment. It seems more like a > specialized sidhi. >
Of course the senses are withdrawn whenever one has samadhi during meditation, but 1) I've never heard it claimed that this would preclude "waking up" in an emergency and 2) wasn't this during a lecture? ------------------------ 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/
