--- In [email protected], anon_couscous_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You can say what you want anon_stute, but the recent Satsang culture > > has like nothing else popularized the essential Advaita doctrines, and > > as such it can only be good in my eyes. > > Somebody may hear the truth > > from a reader at the market-place and get awakened, like Bodhi-dharma > > did. > > So that is good and fine. But it does not counter or even address the > many fine points,IMO,that the article raises. Okay, but I didn't have the time to go through it all. Some points are valid, as I have already pointed out in some other posts, others are completely made up or fabricated. > > And lets face it: most people here are around a meditation path > > already for decades. So leave it up to the appeal/resonance and the > > results, how ready they are for the highest teaching. If they aren't > > ready, and are just out for some emotional comforting, so let it be, > > what's the harm? If you can't profit from this type of teaching, > > then move on. > > But why does Advaita need to be communicated primarily via Satsang? I never said this. I never said this is the only path. I just defended it to some degree. (I will condition this to the degree that they actually teach Advaita principes, and not just some psychological comforting) > There are other avenues. Groups are fine, some are attracted to the > sociality of it. But groups also can become (not always), fertile > fields of ego growth and forms of delusion -- from groupthink, the > desire to "belong" by matching peer experiences, etc. Individual 'striving' can be just as delusional. > > I also think that many Satsang givers haven't achieved the highest, > > and are actually premature in teaching, but they will learn, and > > people around them can still profit. My point is, they are discussing > > the truth, and there can't be anything wrong about that. > > Which can be done also, perhaps more effectively, by directly reading > statements of truth, putting ones attention on saints who embody the > truth, deep inquiry into what is (and is not). I surely have no argument with this. But there could always be the effect of several people creating a higher energy field, some people more 'advanced' helping others to clarify points etc. And: It needs ego to perceive ego. That is mostly big egos are disturbed by other big egos. If you have no big ego, you are not disturbed by egos. 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/
