[FairfieldLife] Why Awakening is delusion (Re: Another example of why Neo-Advaita is B.S.)

2013-07-06 Thread emilymae.reyn
This interview with James Swartz is easily accessible. http://www.nondualitymagazine.org/nonduality_magazine.1.jamesswartz.htm http://www.nondualitymagazine.org/nonduality_magazine.1.jamesswartz.htm --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill wrote: Another half-baked idea that has

[FairfieldLife] Why Awakening is delusion (Re: Another example of why Neo-Advaita is B.S.)

2013-07-04 Thread emptybill
Another half-baked idea that has gained currency in the Neo-Advaita world is the notion of `awakening.' While sleep and waking are reasonable metaphors to describe the states of self ignorance and self knowledge, Neo-Advaita assigns to them an experiential meaning that is not justified. Just as