Dear Sharath, > > Dear Dwai, > You articulations of eastern concepts are all very beautiful. Thank you. >
You are too kind. > I'm not trying to offend or make fun of your "practices" of Tao and Yoga and > unfortunately so far haven't done any Tao practice and I don't know what DQ > or enlightenment means to you or to be honest to me either. But seriously > most times..when I consume 2 shots of good old Jack Daniels my left brain > stops working, the ego is dropped completely, no intellectual hijacking, no > sense of time and space, the ahaa feeling..that you knew something....and > believe me..I see the world more clearly then and I guess there is the "Not > do" being programmed in my brain. It's active but yet not active. The key > for me is to be in the "twilight" zone though...not more..not less...neither > there nor here..:). Two shots of JD might have that kind of effect on you - but JD also creates havoc with your energy (Chi/Prana). Besides, there is a difference between being intoxicated and meditative. I can assure (from personal experience), it is a very different kind of "high". > I thought Phaedrus with his "peyote" experience wanted to convey something > similar..What do you all think ? Possible -- but as I mentioned above -- Peyote has a hallucinogenic chemical substance in it (akin to LSD *acid*, Marijuana, etc) which suppresses possibly the primacy of the Left brain and opens us up to experiencing all the sensory data captured via the right brain (right brain is feeler, left brain is interpreter). A good source of "Peyote stories" would be Carlos Castaneda. > > Also, I can't connect to the "searching for a greater reality" that people > here are talking about. For me the entire cosmos and everything within it, > past, present and future are all within me and vice-versa too[whatever is me > is also part of the cosmos].and that's the only reality for me...I've tried > some meditation and yoga but I kind of follow more easily when J > Krishnamurthy says that "Living our life is itself a meditation". Isn't > Living itself a reality ? what according to you is a greater reality..if at > all it can be pointed to at ? Why is the search required ? and if at all > this it exists then what is the goal ? enlightenment ? The call to seek "beyond" comes to everyone. Each of us react to it differently. Some get afraid and seek psychiatric help. Others redirect this into some kind of sensual feeding frenzy (sex/food/drugs/alcohol etc). The restlessness, the deep-rooted feeling in the gut that says there is something beyond this "reality" we live in is the one that is the guide. Regards, Dwai Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
