Meat eating Buddhist etc.

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Namaste,IMHO.

 

I think one cannot base the authority today on Vedas from 10,000

years ago, re eating meat. However one can base one's authority on

the end of the Vedas or Upanishadic-Vedanta.

 

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In the end result there is a lot of semantics, with regard to

Buddhism and Advaita.

I know in Buddhist thought there are the `absorptions, with

different modifications like bliss, etc. and then rising above all

these. Ending up with `nothingness', and then non-perception nor

perception.

 

Well Vedanta admits to something similar with the five sheaths and

kosas and the states of waking, dreaming, deep-sleep, and Turiya.

(There are also different levels of Samadhi, Samadhi not being

exactly the same as the same concept in Buddhism but nearer the

Dhyana.) So waking, and dreaming are really wrong perception, and

deep-sleep is non-perception. However with non-perception we have

the seed, as not being awake to the true reality, which results in

the other states I suppose of wrong perception or an effect. So

ignorance causes the effect. So with deep-sleep there is an absence

of knowing.

 

I think that connection with the body conceals the `real', knowledge

or Vidya. In dreams the senses cease to function , so everything is

happening in the `light', of the `Self'. So whatever happens in

dream doesn't attract any karma for it due to previous good and bad

karma that the dream takes place. So anything in a dream is not

binding, also some dreams are past lives, future lives, and astral

travel. We know this ,for when we awake we don't take any

responsibilities for the happenings in a dream, or perhaps you don't

remember. There is an underlying consciousness to all this,

otherwise one wouldn't even be able to detach from the last dream.

 

In dreamless sleep there is still a veil over our consciousness,

which makes it part of Saguna. That is, the consciousness is awake

but there is nothing for it to know except nescience prevailing.

 

In Buddhism, as there are different `absorptions', there are some

differences in the Vedanta. Coma, Deep-sleep, Laya, and Yoga-Nidra,

all sharing some similarities...............ONS...Tony.