Re: [FairfieldLife] Matter and consciousness?

2013-10-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
MMY had a fondness for the Kashmere Trika philosophy - I guess that's why he and students visited the Swami Laksmanjoo up in Kashmere on 1968 TTC. Kashmere Saivism is an absolute idealism, just like Adwaita Vedanta. The main difference is the interpretation given to the term 'maya'. Swami

Re: [FairfieldLife] Matter and consciousness?

2013-10-18 Thread Share Long
Richard can you give more detail about how these two systems view maya? Maybe it'll help me stay out of the rabbit hole! On Friday, October 18, 2013 9:12 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:   MMY had a fondness for the Kashmere Trika philosophy - I guess that's why he

[FairfieldLife] Matter and consciousness?

2013-10-17 Thread cardemaister
empty et al: Did Maharishi state something like (paraphrase): the basic state of consciousness is subjective experience of the state of least excitation of matter?? If that's the case was he more of an advaitic vedantist than a proponent of Patañjali's yoga?? I mean, according to