Total Openess & Oneness

[Guest guest]

What is meant by total openness and oneness?

 

… when limitations and restrictions are gone, there is oneness.

With oneness, there is no suffering or conflict, because conflict

exists only where there is more than one.

 

"Openness is an ability to go with the flow, as Taoism puts it,

without expecting predetermined outcomes. It means being receptive

to new possibilities, without prejudging them. It is an ability to

make yourself available to out-of-the-ordinary opportunities.

Indeed, openness to the unknown, the exotic, and the bizarre is

usually seen as the mark of a free spirit. You can increase your

openness by practicing empathy. Move outside yourself into another's

situation. Try to access the other's feelings and ideas. For the

purposes of practice, the more eccentric your choice, the better."

[Guest guest]

This post misuses the ideal of openness to all and equinimity or

vairagya to promote a concept of bizarreness. But bizarreness

and eccentricity are not the hallmarks of a free spirit: they are the

hallmarks of a tamasic spirit who has not learned the second

great lesson of viveka or discrimination between the real and the

unreal, truth and fiction. In fact, the bizarre or eccentric person is

using his/her weird and wonderful excursions to acquire viveka .

 

Bizarre and eccentric actions are a form of the Neti Neti ( Not

this, not that) approach used by Jnanis to arrive at the Divine

through a process of elimination. The actions are necessarily

bizarre because the density of intellect of the tamasic sadhaka

requires a low starting point of inquiry.

 

Omprem

 

 

, "NMadasamy"

<nmadasamy@s...> wrote:

>

> What is meant by total openness and oneness?

>

> … when limitations and restrictions are gone, there is

oneness.

> With oneness, there is no suffering or conflict, because conflict

> exists only where there is more than one.

>

> "Openness is an ability to go with the flow, as Taoism puts it,

> without expecting predetermined outcomes. It means being

receptive

> to new possibilities, without prejudging them. It is an ability to

> make yourself available to out-of-the-ordinary opportunities.

> Indeed, openness to the unknown, the exotic, and the bizarre is

> usually seen as the mark of a free spirit. You can increase your

> openness by practicing empathy. Move outside yourself into

another's

> situation. Try to access the other's feelings and ideas. For the

> purposes of practice, the more eccentric your choice, the

better."

[Guest guest]

Omprem wrote :This post misuses the ideal of openness to all and

equinimity or vairagya to promote a concept of bizarreness. But

bizarreness and eccentricity are not the hallmarks of a free spirit:

they are the hallmarks of a tamasic spirit who has not learned the

second great lesson of viveka or discrimination between the real and

the unreal, truth and fiction. In fact, the bizarre or eccentric

person is using his/her weird and wonderful excursions to acquire

viveka .Bizarre and eccentric actions are a form of the Neti Neti (

Not this, not that) approach used by Jnanis to arrive at the Divine

through a process of elimination. The actions are necessarily

bizarre because the density of intellect of the tamasic sadhaka

requires a low starting point of inquiry.

 

Those above are your views ompremji of which to me still subjected

to many questions. Your perception of tamasic still questionable as

far as I am concern. As such I shall leave this as it is. These are

my views. Take it or leave it.

[Guest guest]

I agree with u

 

NMadasamy <nmadasamy wrote:

Omprem wrote :This post misuses the ideal of openness to all and equinimity or

vairagya to promote a concept of bizarreness. But bizarreness and eccentricity

are not the hallmarks of a free spirit: they are the hallmarks of a tamasic

spirit who has not learned the

second great lesson of viveka or discrimination between the real and the unreal,

truth and fiction. In fact, the bizarre or eccentric person is using his/her

weird and wonderful excursions to acquire viveka .Bizarre and eccentric actions

are a form of the Neti Neti (Not this, not that) approach used by Jnanis to

arrive at the Divine through a process of elimination. The actions are

necessarily bizarre because the density of intellect of the tamasic sadhaka

requires a low starting point of inquiry.

 

Those above are your views ompremji of which to me still subjected to many

questions. Your perception of tamasic still questionable as far as I am concern.

As such I shall leave this as it is. These are my views. Take it or leave it.

 

 

 

 

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