Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 Well, Tony, you are a delightfully, strange bird.... >Tony: PURIFICATION OF THE BUDDHI,AND SELF-SADHANA. P=Participant. > > Before I start let me say that because I can talk about all > this, doesn't mean I can do it. Joyce: I did download all this to read. Seven pages actually, although the seventh had only one line on it and then was empty, that was the most pithy page -very zen. Now, Im not completely certain that with this post you weren't just having a wee joke. Usually, one gets whatever practice one attempts to do straight, so that one can the practice ardently and with clear comprehension. It rather seems to me that while I don't question your ardour, your communication of whatever this is all about is incomprehensible to me because it is incomprehensible to you. Even if you were clear on this practice, if this is what it is, I doubt whether you would be able to teach it to me before you had realized it, could "do it". And even then, I doubt that I would have the capacity to really understand, although from your realization I would feel your great kindess blessing and this would be teaching enough for me. I have difficulty with the notion that someone is teaching others about Reality that says he really knows nothing much - and then makes rather questionable and somewhat bizarre statements to P=participant about how to realize. Kind of a strange pudding to serve others. Still, it was a teaching for me, for which, many thanks. Since I did you the courtesy of reflecting upon your words, Ill assume you will do the same for me. Read to the bottom, you won't be sorry. How was it a teaching? Have patience and let me tell you. A "list" is a difficult place for relationship - a bit iffy. One is always relational to whatever appears but through words only this is a challenge. But I can somewhat feel from various posts from various people, who I would really enjoy spending time with, who I would drink wine with, listen to and laugh with. But with you, you have caught my interest and attention because you seem remote -we two ships passing each other in the night -dots on the great horizon. Im interested in communication. I have heard that this has to do with the way human beings create consensus reality based on agreement -ie. we agree that we all view physical reality in a common way, filtering out most of what is present and so a table is a table and a chair is a chair, there's time and space and a sun in the sky that comes and goes etc. thus creating a basic common physical reality and we then proceed from there. The next part of creating reality has to do with agreements about what other things are "real" - ie. people who see angels love to hang out together and have a intimate communication, and also a great affinity. All of us on this list have a love of something Great, (what can I call It?) However we dimly perceive it, this is real to us, our agreed reality. We communicate this love through words as best we can and we like each other, feel affinity and sometimes even infinity. And, to the degree that we agree on realities, even the unlimited possibilties of multidimentional realities and Ultimate Reality beyond our imagining at this time -is the degree of affinity and communciation we can create with each other. A hint to anyone working with others in crises -if you agree that whatever they are experiencing is real for you too, that you like this, and them, and are willing to be open and to communicate -this is very essential healing. So - the first thing that I notice as I experience your post is -we share a iimited agreement on any reality, (even about notions like "eating" and "purity"). We thus communcate minimally and theres not much affinity or liking. I also noticed that you now are having a dialogue between yourself, someone called P=participant and someone called Joyce(the co-ordinator) LOL! - Im not certain that this personage was meant to be me -but it is your own creation in your play. If this is me, and if what words you put in this mouth of Joyce are what you have discerned from my posts, then I fall on my face to the list and promise never to post again. Still, thank you, Tony, for allowing this much of me to be alive in your mind. So - at this point I have the choice about whether to just allow a Tony to live in mind as someone with whom I have no shared reality, no communcation, no affinity -zilch. (rather like a lump of some undigested dual something) Or, can I try to relate in some way, see if this is possible? So I also created a play in mind, with Joyce talking with Tony and then switching and being Tony listening to what Joyce had to say and then switching back again. Our own little dialogue. It was very interesting, I discovered a bit of iner work to be done but I'll spare the list this bit of Gestalt. I came to some inner resolution, but, what to say to this Tony who wrote on this list. How to find some common reality with him apart from fantasy? There must be, just must be some common value here to build on. So -then last night, I happened upon some fine words, where someone stated that basically, everything that is of value on earth - every structure of value -is recreated or re-manifested in its essentiality in the realm of Paradise. An example of this is given. If when we were twelve years old and happened to be walking in the woods one winter and saw a rabbit crossing a fresh field of snow and it looked pure and pristine and free and if we remember this and cherish this, it will be in Paradise. This does not mean that there will be snow in Paradise or the rabbit, but the essential reality of this experience will be in Paradise. So - while I have no clue what you are talking about, and the bits you say that I do understand I completely disagree with - if I really listen, I can experience that in amongst all the words you post, buried deep and between the lines is something you cherish greatly. As I began to contemplate this and look about me and within with these eyes of cherishing, I found it was rather like looking for mushrooms. At first you don't see anything, but then all of a sudden you see one mushroom, and then more and more until the whole field is alive with little mushrooms one had never noticed before yet had always been there. So now Im playing in this field of cherishing, our common reality and common ground. What was once an empty field is now filled with flowers as far as the eye can see. All the many, many simple experiences in this life that I had forgotten, or even, (may God All-Merciful forgive me) disdained, now come alive again to be cherished. Everything in this morning, in this day of great good fortune is present to be praised and cherished. I feel like painting again after a long night of darkness. For this I have you to thank - that you took the time and the risk to post and that by chance for once I was willing to be open - although nothing comes by chance. Hoping to meet you in Paradise, Love Joyce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 , "Joyce Short" <insight@s...> wrote: > Well, Tony, you are a delightfully, strange bird.... > > >Tony: PURIFICATION OF THE BUDDHI,AND SELF-SADHANA. P=Participant. > > > > Before I start let me say that because I can talk about all > > this, doesn't mean I can do it. > > Joyce: I did download all this to read. Seven pages actually, although the > seventh had only one line on it and then was empty, that was the most pithy > page -very zen. Namaste Joyce, No the 'Joyce', wasn't you. There were quite a few participants, I deleted some. It was a talk that I gave to a full hall of people of all sorts of beliefs and stages of developement.( a couple of years ago) I posted some of it for it covered purification and awareness sheaths etc. My advice on realisation was only up to my experience and what the saints have taught. Very few realised souls talk at all. ONS Tony, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 , "Joyce Short" <insight@s...> wrote: > Well, Tony, you are a delightfully, strange bird.... > > >Tony: PURIFICATION OF THE BUDDHI,AND SELF-SADHANA. P=Participant. Namaste Joyce, Right! I am not strong on communicating through agreed 'realities', for I believe this is part of the illusion and trap, even the mechanics of it. Heavens and Paradises are just as illusory, people getting together and creating a new 'reality'. The mind stuff of these levels is still material albeit subtle and subtler. So I didn't make much of an attempt to communicate this way. I have my own experiences in these levels right up to the non experience. So it something that I just tie in with the material existence. What I was talking about was the elimination of agreed realities in favour to the truth. I'm not realised but intellectually I understand and appreciate non-dualism in a vedantic way. I do my own purification exercises or sadhana everyday, working on that awareness sheath, so that more prajna or higher consciousness may seep through. It is a decision made on getting out not understanding or appreciating the illusion. One doesn't have to understand or appreciate the molecular structure of water to climb out of the pool. Om Namah Sivaya.....Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 Hi Joyce, Thanks for this thoughtful and magical answer. Good discussion of communication... and I love your discovery of all the mushrooms and flowers in amongst the zilch. )) Love, Dharma > Well, Tony, you are a delightfully, strange bird.... > >>Tony: PURIFICATION OF THE BUDDHI,AND SELF-SADHANA. P=Participant. >> >> Before I start let me say that because I can talk about all >> this, doesn't mean I can do it. > >Joyce: I did download all this to read. Seven pages actually, although the >seventh had only one line on it and then was empty, that was the most pithy >page -very zen. > >Now, Im not completely certain that with this post you weren't just having a >wee joke. Usually, one gets whatever practice one attempts to do straight, >so that one can the practice ardently and with clear comprehension. It >rather seems to me that while I don't question your ardour, your >communication of whatever this is all about is incomprehensible to me >because it is incomprehensible to you. Even if you were clear on this >practice, if this is what it is, I doubt whether you would be able to teach >it to me before you had realized it, could "do it". And even then, I doubt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 Hi Tony, >Right! I am not strong on communicating through agreed 'realities', >for I believe this is part of the illusion and trap, even the >mechanics of it. Heavens and Paradises are just as illusory, people >getting together and creating a new 'reality'. The mind stuff of these >levels is still material albeit subtle and subtler. So I didn't make >much of an attempt to communicate this way. So you don't want to learn to communicate with human beings? Makes it kinda difficult to teach, doesn't it? Dharma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 - Dharma Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:04 PM Re: Re: Purification of the Buddhi - talk returning Hi Tony,>Right! I am not strong on communicating through agreed 'realities',>for I believe this is part of the illusion and trap, even the>mechanics of it. Heavens and Paradises are just as illusory, people>getting together and creating a new 'reality'. The mind stuff of these>levels is still material albeit subtle and subtler. So I didn't make>much of an attempt to communicate this way.So you don't want to learn to communicate with human beings?Makes it kinda difficult to teach, doesn't it?Dharma----I'd like to thank you guys/gals for this thread. Tony, especially you, for I coulda been you & I'm happy as heck being me :-)./join All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a.Your use of is subject to the Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 On 5/10/01 at 2:04 PM Dharma wrote: [...] ºSo you don't want to learn to communicate with human beings? º ºMakes it kinda difficult to teach, doesn't it? º ºDharma :-) Tony probably belongs to the class of those privileged ones to whom this haiku applies: greatest joy of all when making others happy no longer enjoys <laugh> Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 , Dharma <deva@L...> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > >Right! I am not strong on communicating through agreed 'realities', > >for I believe this is part of the illusion and trap, even the > >mechanics of it. Heavens and Paradises are just as illusory, people > >getting together and creating a new 'reality'. The mind stuff of these > >levels is still material albeit subtle and subtler. So I didn't make > >much of an attempt to communicate this way. > > So you don't want to learn to communicate with human beings? > > Makes it kinda difficult to teach, doesn't it? > > Dharma Namaste Dharma, One doesn't have to erect new edifices of illusion in order to communicate. There is enough of that already. If you are talking about my talks, most knew where I was coming from and my background before I opened my mouth. Spinning the dreamworld out into new dreams isn't communicating it is adding to the confusion and illusion already existing. Sometimes less is more!!! I'm sorry that some people seem upset that I don't indulge unnecessary illusion or attempt to add to it. no offence meant. ONS Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 , "jb" <janb@a...> wrote: > On 5/10/01 at 2:04 PM Dharma wrote: > > [...] > ºSo you don't want to learn to communicate with human beings? > º > ºMakes it kinda difficult to teach, doesn't it? > º > ºDharma > > :-) > Tony probably belongs to the class of those privileged ones to whom > this haiku applies: > > greatest joy of all > when making others happy > no longer enjoys > > <laugh> > > Jan Namaste Jan, Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and indicates a form of violence. As being privileged, the only privilege I consider myself to be blessed with is at least the intellectual knowledge of Advaita Vedanta, even to my level. ONS Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2001 Report Share Posted May 10, 2001 On 5/10/01 at 11:15 PM Tony O'Clery wrote: [...] º ºNamaste Jan, º ºSarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and indicates a form of violence. ºAs being privileged, the only privilege I consider myself to be ºblessed with is at least the intellectual knowledge of Advaita ºVedanta, even to my level. ONS Tony. Thanks again for the humor Tony - what you consider to be a blessing I consider to be the worst curse possible, even at "my level" - a matter of perspective of course. Perhaps a consolation you're not alone <laugh> Jan l Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 Tony: ºSarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and indicates a form of violence. ºAs being privileged, the only privilege I consider myself to be ºblessed with is at least the intellectual knowledge of Advaita ºVedanta, even to my level. ONS Tony. Jan: Thanks again for the humor Tony - what you consider to be a blessing I consider to be the worst curse possible, even at "my level" - a matter of perspective of course. Perhaps a consolation you're not alone <laugh> Mira: Geez Jan, I couldn't agree more... Conceptual nonduality had become a secret weapon of my mind, in an attempt to intellectualize and be 'accurate'. My mind basically gave in to a state of apathy, turning Nisargadatta's quote of 'all knowledge is ignorance' into a nightmare. The antidote I was given to neutralize this conceptualization was a time in my life during which I was forced to 'know', and forced to value and honor what I 'knew' or I would have ended up very (physically and psychologically) damaged. There are so many lovely ways for immediate discovery of truth, but the intellect make or remember the discovery, for it is truth that discovers the intellect. Love (to you) and Laughs (about myself), Mira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 Namaste All, As a response to some posts I cannot understand. Let me explain something. If one is not realised then the only way one can understand is with the intellect. This is what I mean by intellectual grasp. Nisargadatta said that only one in about 10 million, (Mumbai's population at the time), can really understand advaita, even intellectually. I am lucky that I was intellectually educated to the tertiary level early in life like most. I worked on building sites and in the canefields until I got into sales and found I could do that well. Consequently it saved me from a trap. I am still unable to write the type of english that some do in this field. I am blessed that I have had experiences that enlighten me, and that I can meditate. My own words can be bumble unless I use sanskrit, but I notice reading back there is not much to contradict what I have said. This is a Ramana list after all. Om Namah Sivaya....Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 Hi Tony, >As a response to some posts I cannot understand. Let me explain >something. If one is not realised then the only way one can understand >is with the intellect. I think Ramana might have suggested that you not hold so tight to the intellect. Such a tight grip might keep you from going farther. If in meditation you let go of the intellect and remain open, you open the way for intuition. Love, Dharma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 On 5/11/01 at 2:40 PM Mirror wrote: ºTony: ººSarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and indicates a form of violence. ººAs being privileged, the only privilege I consider myself to be ººblessed with is at least the intellectual knowledge of Advaita ººVedanta, even to my level. ONS Tony. º ºJan: ºThanks again for the humor Tony - what you consider to be a blessing ºI consider to be the worst curse possible, even at "my level" - a matter ºof perspective of course. ºPerhaps a consolation you're not alone <laugh> º ºMira: ºGeez Jan, I couldn't agree more... ºConceptual nonduality had become a secret weapon of my mind, in an attempt ºto intellectualize and be 'accurate'. My mind basically gave in to a state ºof apathy, turning Nisargadatta's quote of 'all knowledge is ignorance' ºinto a nightmare. The antidote I was given to neutralize this ºconceptualization was a time in my life during which I was forced to º'know', ºand forced to value and honor what I 'knew' or I would have ended up very º(physically and psychologically) damaged. ºThere are so many lovely ways for immediate discovery of truth, but the ºintellect make or remember the discovery, for it is truth that discovers ºthe ºintellect. ºLove (to you) and Laughs (about myself), Mira Hi Mira, You couldn't be "more" right on the issue of conceptualizing: when a badly damaged individual, conceptual Advaita can be of some help. But without the experience as a foundation, it can only become belief - not different from any other belief, with those, having realized the 'truth' of it, being used as the evidence. And there still are many ways to discover 'truth' oneself - uninfluenced... In that sense I was 'more' than lucky, from a more or less scientific background that even questions the validity of experience. No influence whatsoever from scriptures... So not much of a surprise, 'life-energy' became 'the' issue regarding nonduality. One of the advantages, the impossibility of a sense of 'arrivedness' as energy will be flowing as long as manifested life will be 'around' <laugh> Another advantage, the impossibility of "behaviorally ordained" blocks due to societal constraints - one of the major reasons of being 'blocked' to life-energy despite the familiar 'I could have known'. I don't think there is much on 'nonduality and life-energy' though - to my experience, Kundalini yoga does not cover that at all <laugh> Love, Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 Jan: So not much of a surprise, 'life-energy' became 'the' issue regarding nonduality. One of the advantages, the impossibility of a sense of 'arrivedness' as energy will be flowing as long as manifested life will be 'around' <laugh> Another advantage, the impossibility of "behaviorally ordained" blocks due to societal constraints - one of the major reasons of being 'blocked' to life-energy despite the familiar 'I could have known'. I don't think there is much on 'nonduality and life-energy' though - to my experience, Kundalini yoga does not cover that at all <laugh> Mira: This is exactly what I have perceived as being something like the 'middle way' between that which moves and that which doesn't. In direct discovery of truth, there is the immediate conceptualization of what it is... as if life tries to define itself by using its ability to conceive itself. But life-energy keeps flowing and does not tarry with yesterday's concepts and understandings. I don't know enough about Kundalini yoga in relation to nonduality inspite of having been on this list long enough to cover the basics of what it is. Could you elaborate a bit on that? Thanks, Mira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 , "jb" <kvy9@l...> wrote: > On 5/11/01 at 2:40 PM Mirror wrote: Namaste, Anything within the mind including energy experiences can only ever be belief without realisation.......ONS Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 On 5/11/01 at 9:30 PM Mirror wrote: [...]ºMira: ºThis is exactly what I have perceived as being something like the 'middle ºway' between that which moves and that which doesn't. In direct discovery ºof ºtruth, there is the immediate conceptualization of what it is... as if life ºtries to define itself by using its ability to conceive itself. But ºlife-energy keeps flowing and does not tarry with yesterday's concepts and ºunderstandings. ºI don't know enough about Kundalini yoga in relation to nonduality inspite ºof having been on this list long enough to cover the basics of what it is. ºCould you elaborate a bit on that? Thanks, Mira Hi Mira, The web is teeming with info regarding Kundalini yoga: and all of it is conceptual <laugh> Not even identical twins will go through the same K. experiences. Knowing everything about the chakras in order to deal with life-energy is just as useful as the biological knowledge of the lungs when it comes to breathing. So I don't think you will find anything of use: All so called "spiritual training" falls into the class of "reverse engineering": conceptualizing "what worked for me", generalizing that and offering it as "teaching". The non-verified assumption is that such an approach will work for others: quite often, it doesn't. Hence, what I call a supreme blessing, not to have fallen into the hands of such teachers but having been trained by Yama, and later on, Shakti <laugh>. So I couldn't recommend a study of Kundalini Yoga - it is dysfunctional unless in a rare case of 'emergency'. Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 Tony: > Anything within the mind including energy experiences can only ever be > belief without realisation.......ONS Tony. That's what you believe.... and then there is that which includes all energy experiences, does not reject any belief, nor is it in need of realization. Mira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 , "Mirror" <mirror@u...> wrote: > Tony: > > Anything within the mind including energy experiences can only ever be > > belief without realisation.......ONS Tony. > > That's what you believe.... > and then there is that which includes all energy experiences, does not > reject any belief, nor is it in need of realization. > Mira Namaste Mira, Energy itself is an illusion, 'God', or Saguna Brahman is an illusion. It is all but a dream. This is my experience. Who are you saying includes all energy experiences? Is it the body? the sheath you move into at sleep? What is beyond all this? That is the truth. I say nothing that the sages didn't say. If you find this is a reality for you then fine, perhaps you can use a thorn to remove a thorn. Kundalini rising is an illusion within all this also. K is the mind, that's all, the focus changes so gives the sense of rising movement. K is prana and doesn't lead to enlightenment. How can it when it concentrates on experiences......ONS ONS Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 Tony: > Energy itself is an illusion, 'God', or Saguna Brahman is an illusion. In relation to what? To reality? The joke is on you Tony. Mira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 On 5/11/01 at 9:30 PM Mirror wrote: [...]ºMira: ºThis is exactly what I have perceived as being something like the 'middle ºway' between that which moves and that which doesn't. In direct discovery ºof ºtruth, there is the immediate conceptualization of what it is... as if life ºtries to define itself by using its ability to conceive itself. But ºlife-energy keeps flowing and does not tarry with yesterday's concepts and ºunderstandings. ºI don't know enough about Kundalini yoga in relation to nonduality inspite ºof having been on this list long enough to cover the basics of what it is. ºCould you elaborate a bit on that? Thanks, Mira Hi Mira, The web is teeming with info regarding Kundalini yoga: and all of it is conceptual <laugh> Not even identical twins will go through the same K. experiences. Knowing everything about the chakras in order to deal with life-energy is just as useful as the biological knowledge of the lungs when it comes to breathing. So I don't think you will find anything of use: All so called "spiritual training" falls into the class of "reverse engineering": conceptualizing "what worked for me", generalizing that and offering it as "teaching". The non-verified assumption is that such an approach will work for others: quite often, it doesn't. Hence, what I call a supreme blessing, not to have fallen into the hands of such teachers but having been trained by Yama, and later on, Shakti <laugh>. So I couldn't recommend a study of Kundalini Yoga - it is dysfunctional unless in a rare case of 'emergency'. Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 , "Mirror" <mirror@u...> wrote: > Tony: > > Energy itself is an illusion, 'God', or Saguna Brahman is an illusion. > > In relation to what? To reality? > The joke is on you Tony. > Mira Namaste, You, I, all this 'creation', never happened, it is like a dream. It has no relationship to anything...ONS Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 --- Dear Tony, you wrote: This is a Ramana list after all. i would like to say that i was privately emailed from another list and asked to consider joining this one by Harsha. He did not say i had to be of any eastern religious persuasion. What i had to say on the other list was similar to what i have said here. I am Native American, and while i was raised roman catholic toplease my dying mother, I find that i dont completely to the teachings of that religion. I find that native spiritualism permeates my belief structure. You may think that you have found the ONLY ENLIGHTENED WAY, but I would not presume to say that your religious beliefs are incorrect, i amy not share them, and that is my choice. I am not God darlin, and here's a news flash for you, NEITHER ARE YOU!!! God decides what pleases Him, and we can only do what we think is best in our human frailty and imperfection. So look up whatever you like if it makes you feel superior, the fact remains that not all participants on this list to Ramana, and I was not told, when i was asked to consider this list, that it was a requirement. Gracie In , "Tony O'Clery" <aoclery> wrote: > Namaste All, > > As a response to some posts I cannot understand. Let me explain > something. If one is not realised then the only way one can understand > is with the intellect. This is what I mean by intellectual grasp. > Nisargadatta said that only one in about 10 million, (Mumbai's > population at the time), can really understand advaita, even > intellectually. > > I am lucky that I was intellectually educated to the tertiary level > early in life like most. I worked on building sites and in the > canefields until I got into sales and found I could do that well. > > Consequently it saved me from a trap. I am still unable to write the > type of english that some do in this field. I am blessed that I have > had experiences that enlighten me, and that I can meditate. > > My own words can be bumble unless I use sanskrit, but I notice reading > back there is not much to contradict what I have said. > > This is a Ramana list after all. > > Om Namah Sivaya....Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 , "jb" <kvy9@l...> wrote: Namaste, Why waste time on the concept of kundalini, cakras etc. It is a diversion within illusion. 'Who am I?' is the way. K is just cleansing prana that's all it is........ONS Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 Tony: > You, I, all this 'creation', never happened, it is like a dream. It > has no relationship to anything...ONS Tony. It can only have 'never happened' in relation to it having happened....there is no never without ever. Now let me guess.... you are not saying this, and you are an illusion that never happened. :-) Mira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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