--- In [email protected], "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "BillyG." <wgm4u@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > If you're aware *of* bliss as a "something," as > > > > blissfulness, that isn't no thoughts/no mantra, > > > > by definition. > > > > > > I think I see the problem now, you must remember that MMY's > > > description of Samadhi includes *three* adjectives, it's Absolute > > > (Sat, eternal without a second), Chit (Consciousness) and Ananda > > > (Bliss, not *blissful* in the animated sense). > > > > Yes, BillyG, I know that. It's not a "problem." > > It doesn't change anything I said. > > > > And I can't imagine where you got the notion > > that I had claimed consciousness "stops" in > > TC-by-itself. That would be a contradiction > > in terms. > > Then there can be no disagreement, I understand your argument, where > there is duality how can there be Unity, right? In TC there is no > subject/object, and that is correct, so how can 'you' experience > anything like blissfulness? > > Here's the answer, you become anandam, you are anandam,
Which is exactly what I said in my earlier post. and a part of > that anandam is consciousness which experiences itself. Anandam > experiences itself for what it is, by that very consciousness > that we have right now only pure in an unadulterated state, > consciousness isn't lost in TC, it expands and becomes pure > awareness, awareness of what? Of itself, which is pure > bliss/anandam. Is that a correct analysis? More or less. (We could quibble about "part of that anandam" and whether the term "experience" is appropriate.) But the answer to the question "What is samadhi like?" is still "It's like nothing." > P.S. Sorry about using your name in top posts...a little over > the top, I admit. We had fun with that last one though. :-) No prob.
