I am someone who is happy being called a cultist.
Originally that term meant people who shared a common method of worship,
often a small circle of devotees. Originally Christians were a small
band of worshipers cult. However, Christianity was not the first
cult of the Roman Empire but was
If the TMO really believed its own billing then they would teach, train
and conduct 50K to 100K Indians to do TM-Sidhi program in India. Each
day every day 50-100K filling up many large tents. After a while,
they could do large stadiums.
Then, following the storyline of their own propaganda,
Relativism sets out to reduce every element of absoluteness to a
relativity, while making a quite illogical exception in favor of this
reduction itself. In effect,
relativism consists in declaring it to be true that there is no such
thing as truth, or in declaring it to be absolutely true that
at all if it is only a social definition? Even the
Khmer Rouge had a type of political-social morality.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
[quoting Frithjof Schuon
Mongolians practice Gelug Kadampa and Bön.
Are you a Buddhist? Are you a Bönpa?
Who are your gurus? Do you have any?
Did you ever learn tm tm-sidhi practice? Where?
You hide like the Oz magician. Are you afraid of being found out?
Why are you on FFL - other than to harass meditators
Liberty . . . is limited to the extent that it is relative, but it is
really liberty in so far as it is liberty and not something else.
What then is liberty considered independently of free creatures, or of
the particular case of a free creature? It is the consciousness of an
unlimited diversity
I forgot to add ... finally something beyond mechanistic scientism.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote:
Liberty . . . is limited to the extent that it is relative, but it is
really liberty in so far as it is liberty and not something else.
What
And what would be a natural law that explains moral causation?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote:
do.rflex:
It's mainly due to our own actions that
negatively affect nature...
Somebody got really mixed up about karma!
In general, followers of the
One of your friends?
Or is he another one of your gurus?
Say it ain't so - tell us he's just your web-associate!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
The real Maharishi effect! ;-)
On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Rick Archer wrote:
So he is the guru of you too?
So what about Vaj?
Will he Step on a Hen to peer at us from a. Safe Height?
Heh Heh.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote:
emptybill:
One of your friends?
Or is he another one of your gurus?
Guru Pitka is an American who
Not to worry. You were constrained by forces beyond your control.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius
anartaxius@... wrote:
I intend to reply to this last post of yours in response to my
response to your original post regarding free will, but I have not had
time to
Because they are not as lucky or cursed, depending upon your POV.
Or both. After all, look at Bariatric-I.
So are you providing another argument for free will?
You can't help but say that!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@... wrote:
--- In
His renown is only local and is less than that of Vunerable Hung Wun,
who is a dikambara, and whose
fame is said to rival even Sino-Texan Osho Nuff.
.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote:
Houston, TX
@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
His renown is only local and is less than that of Vunerable Hung
Wun,
who is a dikambara, and whose
fame is said to rival even Sino-Texan Osho Nuff.
.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote:
Houston, TX
Wow! Look at all those demons.
Not wonder the Hindoo-s have so many problems.
.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote:
Ramana Maharshi was a frequent visitor of this Temple while living in
Madurai.
Daimonis the Greek term and signifies a mediator between
deities and humans. In Neo-Platonism, good and bad daimon-s, like
humans, are distinguished by the primary inclination of their psyche
(soul). This was the original socratic-platonic meaning of the term
ethos.
---
Binary illogic.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote:
authfriend:
Would somebody please, PLEASE explain to Barry the
difference between determinism and predestination?
We've covered this before - the basic question is,
are we free, or are we bound.
If
This was before or after you listened to Die waffen-ss Alte Karmeraden
Singen?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
When I played your clip of the latter and he got to the line
Mein Vater, mein Vater, which had always sent chills up my
spine, I could suddenly
I know the two TM teachers who went to Thailand and Malaysia in 1973.
They had lots of interference since the two governments insisted that
they must be CIA ... i.e. Who could possibly tell us anything about
meditation?
They also met lots of resistance from the older Asian students of MMY
who
Mira was always ready to claim hidden awakenings in the Inconscient due
to her yogic powers. In reality she seems to have been a
ex-theosophist, turned shakti servant of Aurobindo, who was the real
Yogin. Although she seemed to have some actual psychic powers, that
seems to be the core of her
As far as the world, Ramalinga was only concerned to bring the path of
total divinisation to this world so others could follow and realize the
result.
Aurobindo (literally: the point-essence of a light ray) was concerned to
divinize the Inconscient (the life-ground resting on sheer matter).
Aurobindo was a poet and yogin, not a philosopher and certainly not a
scholar-yogin.
He carried 19th century ideas from British and Continental philosophical
idealism into his understanding of yoga. Thus he emphasized historical
and spiritual evolution as a way to contextualize yogic
it.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
Aurobindo was a poet and yogin, not a philosopher and certainly not
a
scholar-yogin.
He carried 19th century
.
**
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
As far as the world, Ramalinga was only concerned to bring the path
of
total divinisation to this world so others could follow and realize
the
result.
Aurobindo
This is just a Gnostic Chistian style night-time story told by
quasi-hindoos to keep the kids quiet and enraptured until they would
fall asleep.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@ wrote:
Special claims of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
Dear EmptyBill or anyone;
SRM Asia? What were they talking about when they felt compelled toget
up and speak in lectures? Lot of us relate to SRM as Charlie
Lutes.Charlie did that his own way too. What were these older
Muslim Brotherhood: `Prepare Egyptians for war with Israel'
By YAAKOV LAPPIN mailto:yaak...@jpost.com
02/01/2011 02:00
A leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt told the
Arabic-language Iranian news network Al-Alam on Monday that he would
like to see the Egyptian people prepare for war
So sorry but although some people may have been relieved that you left,
they didn't care about it enough to even comment.
For many here you are abapical to the purpose of discussions here.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
Preach this gospel to those who
.
(and if the latter, which Personality).
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
So sorry but although some people may have been relieved that you
left,
they didn't care about it enough to even comment.
For many here you are abapical to the purpose of discussions here
The Greeks apparently found a more rationale and believable deity from
the tradition of the Hebrews.
Greeks? You must mean Greek speaking Romans since the time period in
question was during the Roman Empire 150-350 A.D.
And your contention is laughable. The X-tians were noted from their
Yep ... you are indeed spouting off.
By Patanjali-s logic, we can only judge a person's state of
consciousness by the guna-s of prakriti. It is only prakriti which
changes for Patanjali. There is nothing else that can change.
Seeing directly that purusha and buddhi are completely
distinct
No context? No attribution? No placement of the quote within the text?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote:
Steady in that state of fullness which shines when all desires are
given up, and peaceful in that
A Zen teacher in NM? And who'd that be?
And why even care what some Zen teacher says about anything? Zen
teachers in general consider topics like darshan to be anathema. Thus in
their best put-down fashion they dismiss it all.
This only points out the obvious
most of them lack the power or
:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
Zen teachers depend upon closed language loops for meta-meaning that
only the supposedly awakened can intuit. In reality it is just
a non-regular referential language invested with zen-mythologized
meanings.
'Closed
Hmmm ...
So when they agree with you they are sorta o.k.
The rest of the time they are stupidly slack-jawed
fools led around by demonic neo-fascists.
Hmmm you sound like a Neo-Marxist Anarchist.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:
They protested the
Concerning the meaning of parousia, Israel P.Warren, D.D., wrote in his
work The Parousia, Portland, Maine (1879),pp. 12-15:
We often speak of the 'second advent,' the second coming,' etc., but
the Scriptures never speak of a 'second Parousia. 'Whatever was to be
its nature, it was something
of
these. And actually the MSNBC article was a little misleading or
written poorly as the entire bill was defeated which other news
sources
pointed out.
On 02/09/2011 08:32 AM, emptybill wrote:
Hmmm ...
So when they agree with you they are sorta o.k.
The rest of the time they are stupidly
colonists were protesting against
a corporation not a government? The corporation was the British East
India Company.
On 02/09/2011 10:46 AM, emptybill wrote:
Even better:
http://www.thenation.com/article/158282/how-build-progressive-tea-party
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Om. Narayana is higher than the unmanifest. Hiranyagarbha,the golden
embryo, comes out from the unmanifest. All these worlds, including the
earth with its seven dwipa, are within the embryo.
Thus Adi-Shankara describes his lineage of gurus in the Bhagavad-Gita
Bhasya with Narayana because
Said like a good Christian proselytizer.
Aren't you on the wrong forum?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
Thus:
Conclusion: we are all a bunch of pussies waiting to be filled by a
god
Stay tuned to the Left-hand channel. More's to come.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter L Sutphen
drpetersutphen@... wrote:
I enjoyed the turn into left handed tantric humor mr empty bill.
Peter
On Feb 12, 2011, at 1:12 PM, emptybill emptybill@... wrote:
Om. Narayana
Shri Vidya-tantra, an internalized yogic form.
While I'm sure he had his pujas that he practiced externally, his Shri
Vidya practice was an internal form which is rather rare.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Feb 12, 2011, at 1:12 PM, emptybill wrote
it to remind me that I'm Shiva.
With confusion such as this, who needs mere spiritual
ignorance?
*
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
While SBS may
Lohan shows most of the four great obstacles to spiritual life:
High birth status
High Intelligence
Wealth
Fame
However her other brother, Porcelain Lohan, has none of these obstacles
The other Lohan:
http://gallery.shambhalasun.com/_product_39708/Luohan
--- In
@...
wrote:
Ha ha! I really enjoyed the museum in Kansas City mentioned in the
link. We used to visit while we were learning the sidhis nearby. An
amazing collection! :-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
Lohan shows most of the four great obstacles
Unless requirements have changed, being a vegetarian prior to AOL TTC
also means that you can no longer eat eggs from chicken hens.
I assume this also covers your favorite caviar.
So
sorry Charlie, you've been Tuna-ed.
Brahmins only please, no kshatriya-s allowed.
This ain't no
So in Hindu Tantra I can eat Elsie the Cow but not a Brahma-Bull? What
about Buffalo?
At a Buddhist tantric gana-chakra, (a gang-circle), after chanting the
gana-puja meal offered to the protectors and gang-lords, even if the
participant is a vegetarian they must eat a small sliver of meat or
They should offer different size Kila-s, not some stupid knife. A kila
is the tool that Indra used to cut up Vritra. But wait
no
kshatriya-s allowed at the course, so fergit it. Indra is not allow
either.
--- In
How about some Truth in Definition:
How do you divide the mind?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote:
But I do know that many people outside of TM recommend using
a mantra also outside of meditation, during routine work,
also called Japa. I don't know
Point 2.
Assuming he's in CC --- UC; for some unclear reason given this
progression, has shared very little on the kundalini signposts along the
way; thus leaving seekers to fill in the gaps through other sources.
Counter Point 2.
Kundalini doctrine is only one explanatory construct. It is
Shraaddha does not properly translate as belief but rather as faith
or, better yet, faithfulness.
This is a completely different idea.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut no_reply@... wrote:
I am not saying that belief is all, I am just saying that it seems to
be an important
Samaadhi: sam+aa+dhi (putting together) is cognate with the English
word synthesis: Latin, collection, from Greek sunthesis, from
Suntithenai, to put together: sun-, syn- + tithenai, to put.
However in a Buddhist context, samadhi signifies a stable and unified
state of attention in the sense
@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
Shraaddha does not properly translate as belief but rather as
faith or, better yet, faithfulness
Aren't you just here as a proselyte for SRF?
Wouldn't you feel more at home among your
own kind, performing some cross-eyed tratak?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@... wrote:
Which of course is the truth, it takes years and years to actually
transcend to pure consciousness
considers the
heart/hrid (rather than anahata chakra) to be the seat of the jiva.
*
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
Aren't you just here as a proselyte for SRF
This is quite funny. Where did you learn to be so funny? MIU? You sound
like a parrot for those silly rajas. Did they give you these talking
points?
You might want to check your sources since your point shows unawareness
of MMY's transmission of mantra. This also includes the actual
experience
for the general
public. However it is an adjunct to the usual sitting with eyes
closed in meditation.
On 02/19/2011 07:09 AM, emptybill wrote:
How about some Truth in Definition:
How do you divide the mind?
You forgot to mention that meditation is the practice of creating a
blank mind so that the demons of Satan can seize it and turn you toward
a wasted life of wickedness and evil. After tasting that depraved
corruption, the satanic demons will turn you into one of their own ...
the haters of Jeezus
Kundalini doctrine is only one explanatory construct. It is specific to
Shaiva and Indian Hatha Yoga teachings only and has been added to the
corpus of late upanishadic texts in the usual made-up manner.
Westerners seem fascinated by this type of talk but it has
no/none/nothing/zilch to do with
(or Abhayananda) copying the typical Yogic-Vedanta
use .. meaning some kind of proposed ultimate union?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:
The Kali Sadhaka Ghrana tradition.
On 02/20/2011 07:55 PM, emptybill wrote:
Please clarify within which practice tradition
Yup, I do indeed think it so.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:42 AM, emptybill emptybill@... wrote:
(Note that most of our current so-called neo-vedantins are
basically people selling seminars of made-up teachings from
This is overly-literalistic.
How would anyone know it was 3-1/2 turns rather than 3 turns for
something not anatomically findable. It is all metaphor. By the way the
turning is around the Shiva Lingam pictured resting in the pericarp of
the mulaadhara-wheel, not the chakra itself. Wheels don't
This is the homology in the upanishads between the antara-yaga and the
bahir yaga, the inner and outer agni-hotra. This is not some literalism,
as if there was some one-to-one correspondence.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@... wrote:
The flame has seven licking tongues,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center
Goto the section on Sagitarius A* (Sag. A Star) read it and then goto
the bottom of the page.
There are a number of beautiful color photos of stars circling Sag. A *.
Read it and weep with wonder.
You stand corrected to some degree?
Complete bullshit ... right?
The complex astronomical radio source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_radio_source Sagittarius A
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A appears to be located
almost exactly at the Galactic Center (approx. 18 hrs, -29
Just start your own forum, defined it as you wish and invite whom you
prefer.
All the rest is just complaining.
I think the problem FFL is undergoing at the moment is some people
insisting it should ONLY be about spiritual experiences. But I read
Rick's intent as a gathering place for people
Here, Here. There, There.
And the mantra for this mostest-goldenest era is: om kuum-bhay-hyah
mlord
This is not yet in any book ... it is double-triple secret mantra -
guha-guhya mantra.
So don't be left behind. Rather practice to be right behind.
Practice as if god sees you and if not then
FYI ...
Sahasra + ara = sahasrÄra or sahasraara
sahasra = 1000
ara = a radii or a wheel spoke
Therefore ... sahasrÄra or sahasraara literally means a thousand
radii or spokes, which was why it was chosen for the crown chakra or
wheel.
OTOH ...
Sahasrada =
Yadu had five sons, Sahasrada
You are bored with being you. Everyone can understand that.
Whether you are bored is not relevant to any conversation
between any two people on this forum. Your presence here
is just a way to insert your comments without cause.
Go back to the nothingness of you and enjoy it ... just as we enjoy
@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
FYI ...
Sahasra + ara = sahasrÄra or sahasraara
sahasra = 1000
ara = a radii or a wheel spoke
Therefore ... sahasrÄra or sahasraara literally means a
thousand
radii or spokes, which was why it was chosen for the crown chakra
So that is your final word ... I have the right?
You and I have no rights here that are not given gratis by Rick.
If we don't like it we can start our own forum.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill
So now it can be told:
You can smoke dope, fuck whomever you wish and achieve pure
consciousness together with any siddhi you can think of and call it
Shiva's Shakti - i.e. the power of the auspicious one.
Didn't many folks here on the forum do this in the late
'60's to early `70's era? Wasn't
No need to feel sorry for silly ol' Pete.
He still lives in three (3) physical dimensions plus a temporal
dimension that seems to go only forward, not backward (and most
certainly does not slide into another set of actualities).
Don't upset him by telling him everything looks different from the
Rick,
Why is this group proselytizing us on this forum?
Didn't check them out? They are a Gaudiya offshoot of one of the
organizations affiliated and aligned with the Hare Krishna-s.
While these posts here are expository in content by this teacher they
are not discussions with other
He probably meant Shavaasana rather than shivasana.
However, Patanjali does not deal with asanas as such, only mentioning
that:
II.46 seated posture (asana) is steady (sthira) and easy (sukha)
Nothing about lying down in shavaasana. That's a much later hatha style
yoga interpretation. There is
This is all loose talk.
Dividing the mind? Which mind? How?
Who/what would that be doing the dividing? Are they/that/it
somehow different than the mind? How many minds do you suppose we
have?
Attention focuses upon it object. Whether course, subtle or causative,
the object is the point of
This is a straight copy from Childhood's End by Authur C. Clark.
It must have snookered a lot of people.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Flatley untilbeyond@
wrote:
http://www.zetatalk.com/call/c24.htm
The Devil is reputed to be a red creature with a pointed
tail and
I actually worship a demon who is eulogized as the power of
consciousness pervading the universe. It is she who destroys the
purveyors of duality and their running-dog ideo-flunkies.
Just for fun she cuts the aortas of vow breakers, rips their heart out
of their chest and dances as she sucks the
I believe the term might be whale shit.
Willy, wake up!
Is this another wiki-moment for you. Doesn't this happen rather often
for you? Shouldn't you ask your doctor about this?
Chan/Sön/Zen teachings have for the past 1000 years repudiated the
identification of Chan/Sön/Zen with dhyana/chan-na.
Yep, in his Bhagavad Gita and Brahma Sutra commentaries
Shankara unconditionally denounced the fools who use om
... even when they are dying.
Yes? Where exactly and in which context? I read a lot of Shankara
but never encountered it. He said that no mantra can make you free.
--- In
it?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote:
emptybill:
Is this another wiki-moment for you.
Well, I guess we know who the Sanskrit readers are
in this group, and it appears that Vaj and Bill are
not, and they seem to know even less about the history
of South Asia. Go
Kashmiri Shaivism, under Lakshmanjoo may have influenced MMY but this
type of Shaivism is not definitional for the Kevala Advaita of
Shankara's sampradaya. In fact these two traditions dispute each
other in their definitions and claims about reality.
If attention has an object (whether
According to a Shankaracharya who was also a disciple of Swami
Brahmananda Saraswati,
No attribution of who/what/when/where makes this quote just another
spurious claim.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Mar 4, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Michael Flatley wrote:
In
wiki-moment for you.
I guess it would be asking too much to have
them name their own Soto Zen or Dzogchen
teachers...
emptybill:
So you are only accepting Soto teachers as valid
proponents of Chan/Sön/Zen? That IS bullshit Willy!
'Soto Zen' is taught by Soto Zen Masters, Bill
Hey, quit trashing Hindoo devils.
I've got one of my own.
Them is kool.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@...
wrote:
translation: Vaj very much wants you to drop your interest in TM, and
take up Vipasanna meditation. He spends hours each week, month after
month,
Barry is selling himself. It is all he's got.
This is the only reason that he is here.
But wait ... that can't be 'cause he doesn't
have a self ... but wait ... he doesn't need
a real one to sell himself.
Please entertain him for a while more.
That way the rest of us can discuss whatever.
---
willytex@... wrote:
emptybill:
You are showing your ignorance Willy.
Shikentaza is Soto Zen meditation, which is
very similar to TM practice. Shikantaza is a
Japanese term for zazen and is associated
most with the Soto school of Zen Buddhism -
it is the basis of all Zen disciplines
.
***
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@... wrote:
emptybill said: far seeing Wiki rishi-s
Brilliant. A b s o l u t e l y Brilliant.
And really funny.
(deep bow)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
Stay enraged Willy! It makes your
His Sadhana of Mahamudra is quite powerful and is his terma.
The Sadhana of Mahamudra was received as a mind terma by the Trungpa
when he was in Bhutan at Taktsang cave. This is where Padmasambhava
himself meditated in order to subdue obstacles to presenting the
buddhadharma in Tibet.
--- In
Inspired by a Lawson post, here's the sa.mkhya slogan of the day:
My transcendence is better than your transcendence!
A nice encapsulation of the whole darshana.
Now it can be told:
Maharishi wasn't really a yogi. He was a gym teacher!
Finally it all makes sense.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote:
authfriend:
Vaj has repeated this lie here in
various forms over and over for
years...
Not to mention that Hatha
/Shikantaza#cite_note-11 . The term can be
broken down as follows: shi = shamatha, kan = vipashyana, ta =
center/essence, and za = sitting.
***
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@...
emptybill:
Yep, while the wiki rishi-s have
Unless you don't realize the Atma, according to Vedanta, there will
not be any realization.
Radhakrishnan states:
Sha.mkara argues that it is impossible for us to know the self (Atman)
by means of thought, since thought itself is a part of the flux
belonging to the region of the non-self.
MMY's original teaching described no thoughts/no mantra as
the temporal period during which the recognition of the nature of the
self could occur.
That period of recognition constituted either the gradual or the
immediate unfolding of direct realization
i.e. the self
realizing itself by itself
of the relative.
***
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
MMY's original teaching described no thoughts/no mantra as
the temporal period during which
It is so great to know that I have so many atman-selves.
I always felt that I needed more than just a single one because the
Bauddha-s insisted that I had to get rid of the idea of having one at
all. Thus, one to throw away works best, imo.
Anyway, I might need to use some of them if I get
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
The Self is not seen or realized by transcending - which is
the activity of thinking diminishing into silence/stillness.
Check. (But it is the temporal period during which the
recognition of the nature of the Self could occur, right
The means to that state is the highest non-attraction
(viraga/vairagya) shows that the highest degree of non-attraction
is the means to this samadhi. **
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote:
emptybill:
MMY's original teaching
Oh yeah? Well for your information, Vaj only posted this to distract
people so they would start looking for something meaningful in that
which is meaningless. All because you let out the most secret mantra of
the great, all-embracing tradition (the one passed only orally) which,
until now, has
He is Iraqi but he lives here? WTF.
He is Iraqi-American ... What is that?
He is a Filmmaker? What films has he made?
He is in FF for what
to make a film to show the world that poor
mussalmen are not treated right in `smearika and that hindoo
thugs are attacking them?
Is he rather
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