Guest guest Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The Practice of Meditation > > Q: What about practicing in a group or alone? > > M: The latter is advisable for beginners, but we must learn to advance to > the point where we create our own mental solitude, then it will not matter > where we are. We must learn to find solitude (mentally) in the midst of > society; we should not give up our meditation because we are among people, > but carry it on even then. Just do not be ostentatious about it - do it > secretly. Do not make an exhibition of the fact that you are meditating. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > From the book, "Conscious Immortality" by Paul Brunton and Munagala > Venkataramiah, published by Sri Ramanasramam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Dear Miles: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Thank you. I will pass this on to HS and Advaitin. 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Love to all 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Harsha 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">Miles [miles.wright (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com] Friday, December 10, 2004 7:00 AM RamanaMaharshi Re: [RamanaMaharshi] From Conscious Immortality 12.0pt"> om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya Dear Harsha, Aristotle's teleological argument comes to mind. e.g. "God and nature do nothing in vain." 12.0pt">Aristotle believed that a form, with the exception of the Prime Mover, or God, had no separate existence, but rather was immanent in matter. Thus, in the Aristotelian system, form and matter together constitute concrete individual realities; the Platonic system holds that a concrete reality partakes of a form (the ideal) but does not embody it. Aristotle believed that form caused matter to move and defined motion as the process by which the potentiality of matter (the thing itself) became the actuality of form (motion itself). He held that the Prime Mover alone was pure form and as the ³unmoved mover² and final cause was the goal of all motion. (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.) Aristotle concluded that God was the Unmoved Mover. Kind Regards, Miles color:#000020"> mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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