--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:14 PM, sparaig wrote:
> 
> > Really. Is THAT what YS 2:35 means...
> 
> 
> It's a sketch. That's why they need comments. Vyasa says the loss of  
> hostility extends to "all beings", by that what he means is that  
> creatures normally hostile to each other--like a cat and a mouse-- 
> even they abandon their natural hostility towards each other.
> 
> The comments also specify the tests for the perfection of ahimsa
> 
> -the vitarkas and deviant thought no longer arise in the presences of  
> the causes which would normally incite violence and those tendencies  
> in others and
> 
> -this is not a passing or occasional thing, but is stabilized,  
> permanent and natural (pratishtha).
> 
> I like to call this quality of consciousness "immovability".
> 
> This is why I have previously said for this to work one is at least  
> at the level of pacification or subjugation in terms of their  
> experience of samadhi.
>

Or, samadhi isn't an experience.


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