On Jul 24, 2007, at 9:23 AM, t3rinity wrote:
--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to use paradox as a vehicle, > try running through a couple hundred mahavakyas you don't already > know an answer to or have discursive ideas about. Sorry Vaj, there are only 4 mahavakyas, all else are just vakyas. Maybe you mean koans. Its not the same, it has a different underlying principle, and it comes from different paths with different goals and spiritual perspectives.
I was referring to the 600 or so mahavakyas of the Chinese kung-an (called koans in Japanese) which are also used to stimulate waking in some Buddhist schools. The goal, awakening, is the same, but the View is different. It was actually my Patanjali guru who turned me on to the fact that these kung-an are a more detailed and rigorous set of mahavakyas.
