Greetings, Do you think enlightenment, or "the mystical," is levitating three feet above the ground? Or might it be nothing fancy, merely an expanded and deeper understanding/insight/experience of reality, a remaking of one's relationship to knowing? Hasn't RMP stated that the ideal is to experience the Dynamic point-of-view simultaneously with the static point-of-view?
Marsha On Nov 19, 2012, at 3:01 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "When early Western investigators first read the Buddhist texts they too > interpreted nirvana as some kind of suicide. There's a famous poem that goes: > > While living, > Be a dead man. > Be completely dead, > And then do as you please. > And all will be well. > > "It sounds like something from a Hollywood horror-film but it's about > nirvana. The Metaphysics of Quality translates it: > > While sustaining biological and social patterns > Kill all intellectual patterns. > Kill them completely > And then follow Dynamic Quality > And morality will be served. > > ... > > "When Phaedrus first went to India he'd wondered why, if this passage of > enlightenment into pure Dynamic Quality was such a universal reality, did it > only occur in certain parts of the world and not others? At the time he'd > thought this was proof that the whole thing was just Oriental religious > baloney, the equivalent of a magic land called 'heaven' that Westerners go to > if they are good and get a ticket from the priests. Now he saw that > enlightenment is distributed in all parts of the world just as the color > yellow is distributed in all parts of the world, but some cultures accept it > and others screen out recognition of it." > > (LILA, Chapter 32) > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > The purpose of mystic meditation is not to remove oneself from experience but > to bring one's self closer to it by eliminating stale, confusing, static, > intellectual attachments of the past. " > > (LILA, Chapter 9) > > > _____________ > > > 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/md/archives.html
