Tony / distractions

[Guest guest]

Dear Tony --

 

I find a grain of truth in what

you say. This is the grain

of truth I find: As long

as there persists the

sense of a being apart,

that being, considering

itself as having an existence,

will crave, not only for distractions

through experiences, but security

and predictability. But life isn't

secure or predictable, and

distractions through experience

may build tolerance and require

further and more intense experience.

 

Consider --

craving may be for

religious experience as well

as sensual experience, may

involve sensory deprivation, unusual

postures, ordeals to induce visions,

fasting, chanting or meditating for

great lengths of time --

 

craving may be to escape the senses

as well as to glorify sensual experience.

 

craving may be for a life of solitude or

for a life immersed in excitement, drugs or

parties.

 

When the sense of having an

existence is not, when the

sense of a being apart is not,

not only does no craving for

distraction or experience arise,

there is nothing apart that can

serve as distraction or separable

experience.

 

From this "now" arises

all. All that arises is

this "now".

 

There literally is nothing apart,

nothing that can distract

a "me" that has no separable

existence.

 

It is for "this one" to look into

this: is there a "me" claiming

an existence apart, looking

for escape or something to have,

looking for a particular experience?

 

No one outside can "be the judge".

 

This is for "this one" to look into,

directly.

 

Namaste,

Dan

 

 

 

 

>Tony:

>The problem with bondage, depravity, distorted tantra, sexual

gymnastics, etc is they are a diversion.

It is not that I am judging what is right or wrong. What

is an

impediment to liberation is the forming of new and

powerful samskaras

or tendencies. These odd behaviours do not help, in fact

they continue

to reinforce the senses, which in essence are the cause

of our

bondage. It is the senses that keep us on planet earth,

there is no

moksha until they are risen above.

Most of the practitioners of these odd behaviours do not

follow a path

of advaita or non dual knowledge, in its truest sense.

They are

attached to experiences and see them as being the 'be

all', when the

'be all', is beyond all experiences.

The preamble to this list covers the teachings of Ramana

Maharshi, who

taught 'Who am I?', not what am I and what can I

experience? There are

other lists that accomodate all these sensual diversions.

However I am

prepared to debate any point on them here.

 

Om Namah Sivaya......Tony.