--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], wmurphy77 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > snip > > > It's an easy enough thing to dismiss. If you think that samadhi is a > > thing to be perceived, > > > or that there is a consistent experience that always precedes it, > > you're wrong. > > > > > > Period. End of story. Move along folks, nothing here to see > > (literally). > > > > It's easy for you to dismiss 5000+ years of Indian religious history, > > not for me, though I have never experienced the opening of the third > > eye surely the principle, (like I have stated) is universal in Yoga and > > even in the Bible. (If thine eye be single, thy body will be full of > > light) What do you think Jesus was talking about? > > > > > Are you simply incapable of reading and understanding? > > There is NO valid description of samadhi. Not even the gods themselves can describe it. > > Period. > > THAT is the 5000+ history of Indian religious history. People who say otherwise are nuts, > pure and simple. > > We can even explain why this is so, on a physiological level: when the activity of the > thalamus is reduced, the ability of the brain to describe inner states is reduced as well, > since perception, even "subtle" perception, is based on the recycling of sensory input > through the thalamus. When there is no perception, yet the brain remains alert, this is > smadhi.
I thought someone like Buddha or someone said: "It's not this, and it's not that", to describe samadhi... R.G. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/zAINmC/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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
