Really wonderful exposition, Edg. Thank you. Marek
** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > new.morning wrote: "I am particularly interested in the one for which > a particular type of passivity is the prescription to most things." > > authfriend wrote: "I don't recall anyone here ever expressing such a > prescription. (snip) But I'd be surprised if anyone here would defend it." > > Edg: I read in, er, maybe the Srimad Bhagavatam, that if everything > was "understood," then one should just lay down on the ground and stop > living -- only eating "like a snake who must wait for food to come to > it." Something like that. Pure passivity. > > I love the concept as a variant of the "God's Will" concept. If God > wants me to save the world, well, he'll have use His ooogabooga brain > to figure it out -- He won't be counting on my local nervous system > with its parochial, partial, pitifully limited POV to come up with the > insight needed to save the world. > > A meat robot has to be directly and divinely inspired as to where and > when it might deliver an Alexandrian cut to the world's Gordian Knot. > "Divinely" means, sorta, coming from a source of information that is > only available to a robot that has become aware of the least aspects > of its programming.....ritam level, God-conscious level -- like that. > > The enlightened robot is one in which the "ego part" has finally "got > it" that it is merely the "I" functionality of robot's programming and > that it, ego functionality, is not the actual observer of the robot's > thoughts, but that, instead, an "outside" presence, awareness, > consciousness observes all of the robot's inner and outer actions and > that this presence no longer identifies with the "robot's ego." What > the robot comes up with next is something the robot is usually unable > to predict, and it is something the "outside" observer is unattached > to -- as a movie screen is unattached to the "happenings" upon it. > So, the observer is always there but it is seemingly passive about > what the robot does when the robot ego is invalidated and no longer > considered sentient. > > Once the observer recognizes -- re + cognizes -- its non-robotness, > the entire world of the robot becomes entirely unimportant and > insignificant regarding the observer's eternal and transcendental > status. The observer understands that "all this" is as ephemeral as > the shadows on the walls of Plato's Cave. That is to say, exactly like > each of us experiences when we awaken in the morning and consider the > value of our night's experiences while dreaming -- who cares if I just > won the lottery in the dream? -- dream money don't count no how in > wake retail shops. > > Like an airplane propeller that still spins when the engine has been > "shut off," the robot's programming continues spinning "its story," > until the robot's programming begins to come to terms and begins to > "deal with" "this presence," and thus it begins to refine its > programming "towards silence." The robot begins to have clarity about > its subtleties. Issues of the robot world begin to pale and drop into > the background, and the robot begins to manifest symbols of the > growing silence with whatever words and actions it can muster up. > Like the villagers who try to help Baby Krisna hold up the mountain > with their sticks, the robot tries to help silence do its thang in > just this manner. Nothing really needs to be done by anyone, but > everyone wants to help even if it's merely symbolic helping. > > Just so, does the robot continue after enlightenment. The heart > values begin to dominate until love is seen in every nook and cranny, > and then, finally, after coming to clarity about its god-like > programming delicacy, the robot can finally begin to see its harmony > with the quantum foam that now becomes its "new ego." > > Unity dawns. > > Then, even this unity comes to understand that it is a manifestation > too, and that the quantum foam is held in the arms of silence > complete, and that all this is that silence. > > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is a robot that claims it is in tune with the > foam, but the Ramana Maharshi robot teaches "tune schmune" -- the real > deal is the silence beyond -- a silence that is merely symbolized by > awareness, consciousness, existence, conceptuality. > > Edg >
