--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Exactly the map is different than the territory. The > > barest of > > information, enough to quide and inspire. How else > > can the non-dual > > descriptions be reconciled with what MMY says. He > > left much out by > > necessity, and for other reasons, and many still > > accept the map as the > > territory. Many don't anymore. > > Another point to add is that the map was initially > comprehanded in waking state with all the implicit > waking state limitations that one is necessarily > oblivious to in waking state. Then there is a certain > experience of Realization (stable or not) and the > waking state map fits to a certain extent but not > perfectly. Other traditions/gurus can offer conceptual > tools that help make sense out of the experience. > Buddha's and Adi Shankara's enlightenment are the > same, but they articulate it in different ways. In my > own experience I have found Buddha, initially, and > later Ramana Maharishi (and Gangaji) extremely helpful > in understanding what's going on. SSRS is there to > carrot and stick me! >
The same folks for me along with Nasargardatta, Wilber, Merrill-Wolfe, Atma-Boda (Shankara) and others. Then I went back and listened to all of Maharishi's audio tapes (that I had in the Blue Cases) to see if he covered the dualistic <-> nondual misconceptions. He did, but only briefly. JohnY 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/
