--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" <babajii_99@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > There is NO valid description of samadhi. Not even the gods > > > > > themselves can describe it. > > <snip> > > > > I thought someone like Buddha or someone said: > > > > "It's not this, and it's not that", to describe samadhi... > > > > > > Sounds like yet another way of saying the same thing. > > > > Yup. Maybe a better way of saying it is that samadhi > > can only be described negatively, in terms of what it > > is not. > > Ummmm... > > Samadhi can't be desribed because descriptions require there > to be mental labels associated with the thing that you're trying > to describe. By the nature of "no thought," there's no > description possible because there are no mental labels possible. > > There's no need to attempt to come up with a better way of not- > describing something that can't be described, by the very > definition of "description," then to say what I just said.
"Not this, not that" is a pretty effective label, actually, since it precludes all other labels and specifies nothing itself. ------------------------ 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/
