[allspirit] Fwd: Where elephants go to die!

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Dear Gill and all,

I was only reiterating how Advayavada works in this connection. In

Advayavada the Eightfold Path is seen as the way to become oneself herenow

as existence becoming over time now in its overall right direction; it is

by becoming herenow as the whole of existence as it is beyond our commonly

limited and biased personal experience of it, that we free ourselves from

suffering and realize genuine happiness. Nirvana [or Enlightenment] is when

we experience our own existence as being completely in harmony with

existence as a whole becoming over time.

The aforegoing is to be taken literally: the measure in Advayavada is

overall existence. In Advayavada the Dharma of the part (=the Eightfold

Path) is a reflexion of the Dharma of the whole.

Sorry for any misunderstanding.

Kind regards,

John Willemsens.

....................

Advayavada Buddhism Infocenter - Amsterdam

visit: www.euronet.nl/~advaya/sitemap.htm

 

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----

Van: "Gill Eardley" <gill@a...>

Aan: <allspirit>

Verzonden: donderdag 24 mei 2001 10:59

Onderwerp: Re: [allspirit] Fwd: Where elephants go to die!

 

| Dear John and all

|

| I don't think Dave is implying that anybody can just go

| along to a satsang once never having done any work

| or followed any path, and become enlightened, and

| never need to practice again.

|

| He himself followed his own path diligently for 30 years

| before awakening, and most will have done a lot of work

| before what he described happens. It will happen if someone

| is ready, and it is possible for it to happen. That also does not

| mean the end of the path. He did say "You won't come

| back again as a **seeker**. "

|

| Namaste, gill