On May 25, 2007, at 6:36 PM, qntmpkt wrote:
---Vaj, I know you're heavily into "tradition" but there's something called "new knowledge";
And you feel the blossoming of new knowledge isn't part of or hasn't happened in a tradition before? There's little "new" under the sun.
Tradition is merely an authentic line of transmission, that's all, a river of transmission, it's not static. Don't think it means nothing new or unique happens. Something new or unique *always* happens as each person, unique in their own ways, awakens.
but ultimately, the idea is to seek the truth, whether from tradition, authorities, Scriptures, one's own experience, heresay evidence;...better yet, everything together with one's own experience at the top of the list. This separates the true Gnostics from the TB. I see no reason to separate karma from stress and say it's only karma. Why not get rid of the bad karma AND the stress, on all levels. It's not an either/or proposition, unless one's Guru is only adept at helping you one one level and not another.
I was not objecting to karma in my remarks but the insistence on "stress release" and the purification of the physical nervous system.
