--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter wrote: > > --- Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Peter wrote: [...] > >>> is localized to be either far away or close. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> How would you function if you cannot localize enough > >> to deal with paying > >> your bills or driving a car? > >> > > > > You're confounding consciousness with mind. Two > > entirely different things in realization but not in > > waking state. The mind pays the bills and drives the > > car, not consciousness. The mind is a siddhi of > > consciousness. > > > No you don't understand what I'm saying. Certainly the mind is > "contained" in consciousness but what happens if the local tax collector > calls you and says "Peter, you own $5,000 in back taxes and have to pay > up by the end of the month or we'll take your house." Do you remain > "meless" or does "the Peter and the tax bill" suddenly become the center > of focus? My bet it is the latter. :) >
Shankara is said to have been chased up a tree by a tiger. The king he was with said it showed that Shankara was afraid. IIRC, Shankara replied that the body responded to a life threatening situation in an appropriate way (or something along those lines).
