--- In [email protected], "yhvhworld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- > > >Thanks for posting this(below) excellent discourse! What he says > is apparently true in regard to what may come "later" - after the > primal sounds and so forth.
Not sure exactly what you mean by this... > OTOH, Buddhism is no less "Dharmic" than Saivite Hinduism, but the > Buddhist Masters cognize their own Scriptures. MMY seems to equate > "Vedic" with "good" (if it's not Vedic, then it isn't worth a hill > of beans). All Buddhist teachers would disagree with this. Oh, I don't know if he makes that equation. I think he considers the Veda the *ultimate*, but not necessarily that everything else along these lines is worthless. > In addition, cognizing the Vedas only goes so far, since IMO all of > mathematics could be regarded as "Vedic", but MMY doesn't know much > about math. (evidently, mathematics is in MMY's "later" category); > AS WELL AS (and this is important!): the ability to cognize the > FUTURE. Otherwise, if MMY could predict the future, he would no > doubt use this ability to become a commodities market wizard, > making all of the billions he so ravishly desires. It would be interesting to ask him about this. My (uninformed) sense is that one would cognize specific information on a "need-to-know" basis (the need being determined by nature). Plus which, there may be some metaphysical problems involved in messing with the future. It's not clear to me that one can predict the future without *changing* the future, so it's no longer quite the same future you're predicting--sort of along the same lines as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Just thinking about it makes me want to take a nap... > To conclude, "cognizing the Vedas" isn't valued at all in Buddhism; > or perhaps the definition of the Vedas needs to be expanded to > incorporate Buddhist texts and pure Platonic knowledge like > mathematics. How about the broadest definition possible: Cognizing > anything true. ------------------------ 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/
