Guest guest Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Hah! Sat Sangeet, I am not so sure about that one either. It is something I heard sometime, somewhere hangin' around the Dharma. But, check it out....no matter how long or how many times you are supposed to practice a meditation or posture, 108, 54, 52, 26, 11, 7, 5, 3, if you divide it, you end up with an odd number which is not divisible. Something about that simply has to stand on it's own. I remember watching the movie entitled "Pi" (http://www.pithemovie.com/) and BOY! if that wasn't like putting a metal bucket on your head and smacking it for 2 hours with a stick.....I don't do migraines. Pi (3.14) has never been reduced to a fixed number no matter how big and powerful the computer. That has got to count for something, a maybe it's never supposed to be comfortable and quantifiable by our iddy, biddy egos. Sat Nam, Dharam Singh Sat Sangeet wrote: > > "Odd numbers are not divisible"....Dharam Singh > > > Dharam, I do not understand what I am supposed to deduce from this > statement? > > I understand that odd numbers are not divisible..but I don't see the > connection as to why we would choose them for that reason, when > meditating....can you expand? > > Thanks, > > Sat Sangeet > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 I think what you are getting at there is that there is an infinity of numbers and is possible to use numbers in such a way that one can experience infinity, thus proving its existance. PI is an example. Perhaps some of the equations used in yoga are examples too. There needs to be a study......... > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 But would that "prove" the existence of infinity? Does it not have to be experienced and known, and even so it would be known only to the knower, and each person has to be experience to know? sevasimransingh <mark.terrell wrote: there is an infinity of numbers and is possible to use numbers in such a way that one can experience infinity, thus proving its existance. PI is an example. Perhaps some of the equations used in yoga are examples too. There Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 Yes,indeed. If enough people experienced it there would be a consensus, although there would still be people that would say it is a delusion or strictly due to brain chemicals. Mathematicians would accept it when they have been unable to disprove a mathematical proof that is an example of its existance. If the universe, in a sense, is made up of numbers, all phenomena of consciousness should be able to be also discovered through mathematics, though not necessarily experienced. That is the domain of yoga. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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