--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Dick: > > It used to be a rather nice, synergistic list. Numerous people who > like to argue a lot came over from the Usenet list > alt.meditation.transcendental (which is mud-sling central, argue- > till-you-drop kinda spew-fest of a list) and many of that lists > tendencies followed from that diaspora.
Not to, um, argue or anything, but that is an exceptionally one-sided (not to mention self-serving) perspective. > > Vaj. > > On Jan 6, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Dick Richardson wrote: > > > Hi, I just recently joined this list, but there sure does seem to > > be a whole lot of arguing going on here alas. I know nothing about > > this Maharishi Mahesh Yogi feller, but in their own terms and words > > maybe they are talking about the same thing that I and others talk > > about and which we found by accident spontaneously without even > > seeking it. And they are all natural mystics with this gnosis or > > whatever you choose to call them, and they all talk about the same > > thing, albeit using different words and sometimes symbols. But it > > can also be spoken about in plain and simple language as is - AS IS > > found to be by experience. That is why the only thing I ever > > decided to join was the Asisian Knights and Ladies Fraternity for > > they do not beat about the bush in dialogue and they live their > > stuff, they walk the talk. And they give people that which exists > > to be found which religions do not mention and which science texts > > books do not give them - that eternal and ever lasting wisdom in > > the ground of our being. > > > > So, my idea of a mystic is somebody who has hit that realm of > > consciousness beyond the levels of personality, memories, the > > potential to think; beyond the perception of Time and Space, and in > > which there is not even any memory of this world at all (or ever > > having been in it whilst there). And all one knows there is what > > they are, where they come from, why they exist, and what creation > > IS and why it is - hence a primordial explosion of love (passion > > really) and this innate eternal knowledge, understanding, wisdom, > > and the love of TO BE, and the love of that very mysterious > > (whatever) which many call 'No Created Thing'. > > > > And then of course they bring all that back to this place with them > > on their return here and live by what life itself has taught them > > in its ground of being - and to which it had spontaneously dragged > > them back for a few earthly hours. From Eternity for this purpose. > > Ab Aeterno Ad Hoc. In order to know their Self and to know what > > they are and what they are not. The knower and the known in a > > unitary reunion of passion and that peace which passes all > > understanding in the very bowel or womb of Eternity. > > > > But then again, that is just my use of the word of course. > > > > Dick. > > > > Order of The Asisian Knights. > > >
