I don't think the Christians are as scary though. There's not the total
dissolution of self in God like there is with the Easterners. Back ages ago,
the Christians were certainly on a par with this, with their self-denial and
extreme monasticism business. Now the Indians are taking the lead
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter
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I don't think the Christians are as scary though. There's not the
total dissolution of self in God like there is with the Easterners.
Back ages ago, the Christians were certainly on a par with this, with
their
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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At the start of this thread, you quoted Ramana Maharishi on the
value of letting His name, the name of a god, not only permeate your
meditation but every moment of your life, every impulse of your
thought, the
Rick wrote:
Gurus are just people who are farther up the mountain, or perhaps sitting on
its summit.
Bronte writes:
If this is all they were, darlin', they wouldn't be intent on wearing crowns,
having us prostrate ourselves at their feet, call on them to marry us, give our
children
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter
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If you say you don't need it, you simply find it useful, I
challenge you to give up mantra meditation, chanting sessions and all
other devotional activities for two weeks. I'll bet
You mentioned earlier your own experience of both the infinite Self
background bliss and of the relative self, not seeing any
contradictions. Why isn't it the relative self in the background
going about it's usual business and the infinite Self that is the
centre of gravity identity, as one
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You mentioned earlier your own experience of both the infinite
Self
background bliss and of the relative self, not seeing any
contradictions. Why isn't it the relative self in
the background
going about it's usual
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My own experience, and my observation of those whom I consider to
have most
successfully achieved the goal of meditation practice, does not
corroborate your theory. The realized people I know, on this forum
and in my
