--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > >
> > > > "Dismissal of the relative" isn't Advaitic anyway. > > > > > > Yes. Its sort of like concluding that people who realize that films > > > are an illusion, are people who don't like films. > > > > But the point MMY makes--and I've heard other > > teachers make it, so it's not just him--is not > > that the relative is an illusion; rather, the > > illusion is that the relative isn't Brahman. > > > > Your analogy works nicely either way, though. > > The words I often heard hims say is -- relative = maya: paraphrasing > -- maya is that which is not. Its not that maya is an illusion, its > not what it appears. > > Snake is really a rope. > > And/or -- parallel to greeks -- Hericlitus? -- its ever changing. It > has no permanence. Its here today, gone tomorrow. How can one give > that the status of "real". > Kids get it -- despite some who assert they have no spiritual interests. "Thats Unreal! (dude)" : -- a mantra of the current teen -20's cohort (and aslo usde by past cohorts, who dropped it and are now dazzled by the relative "Thats Awesome". 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/
