--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff <no_reply@> > 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.
Ok. Your emphasis on it seemed to me like you were implying a primarily path. But I get your perspective better now. >(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. Sure. It can. Not necessarily so, but each way has strengths and pitfalls it would appear. ------------------------ 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/
