--- In [email protected], "boo_lives" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the term "neo-advaitin kids" reminds me of Charles Manson who used > that language - everything is one, good, God, no duality - to help > convince his followers that there was nothing wrong with murder. I > think many neo advaitins are either psychologically disturbed or have > screwed up kundalini. You may be right; I've certainly seen (and of course, been) would-be gurus who apparently warp and misuse the POV-4 one truth into an apology for the status quo of the guru's power-abuse, to perpetuate blame, shame, and truth-denial and thereby to repress the gurus' followers' natural impulses to free themselves from an autocratic, fundamentalist POV-2 regime. And again, *in no way* is this truth intended as a substitute for action/inaction, or as a prescription for any particular action/inaction. Rather, it is intended as an impetus for inquiry into one's own self- righteousness, projection, blame, victimization and above all, suffering. When one has healed most of these issues and is grounded in the love of Being the Self, one's natural humor and fearlessness shreds the cobwebs of such attempted manipulations around one, and erstwhile sleepwalkers appear naturally to begin to share in that humor and delight and strength and Being the Self. But again, it's all about how we (unconsciously or consciously) treat our own particles, for the eternally-pulsating nature of our Being- Consciousness-Bliss guarantees that however we think on the simplest levels (i.e. treat the particles of our Reality, our bodymind), we will then experience as our all-encompassing Reality (when we collapse into those particles and perceive our Reality through them). All of these particles are in actuality our own perfect radiance, the wholly innocent devas of our own body-mind, merely awaiting the programming we give them with our stories. This is why it generally behooves us to avoid "smudging" or "smearing" anyone or anything in our Reality, for in truth we are then only smudging and smearing our own bodymind, and our perception of Reality will suffer for it. Not that there's anything *wrong* with that, of course :-) *L*L*L*
