N.S.Goenka, Vipassana, Vibrations.

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Namaste All,

 

When people use 'Who am I?', unless it is done as a deep meditation,

it is just words. It has to be a Bhakti type effort, where meditation

is on the God form 'I'. that is its name, the Saguna Brahman. Also

again without a pufified Buddhi it is going nowhere, unless it is a

self cleaning sadhana and meditation.

 

'But of course by eating meat you indirectly encourage someone else to

break the precepts by killing. And also at a subtler level you harm

yourself by eating meat. Every moment an animal generates craving and

aversion; it is incapable of observing itself, of purifying its mind.

Every fibre of its body becomes permeated with craving and aversion.

This is the input you receive when eating non vegetarian food. A

meditator is trying to eradicate craving and aversion, and therefore

would find it helpful to avoid such food.'

 

Q. 'Is that why only vegetarian food is served as a course?

 

A. Yes, because it is best for Vipassana meditation....SN. Goenka.

 

Vipassana is similar in many ways to Advaitic meditations.

 

On a last note on human ignorance. A human looks forward from a past

experience. So does an animal. Instinct is just samskaras from past

experiences.

 

ONS.......Tony.