Guest guest Posted August 16, 2002 Report Share Posted August 16, 2002 I"ve been reading Amma's bio, Healing the Heart of the World. I think someone told me that Gayatri, an early disciple in the book, is no longer with the movement. Maybe I"m confused with someone else? If it is Gayatri, does anyone know why she left? =-= om=- Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2002 Report Share Posted August 16, 2002 > I"ve been reading Amma's bio, Healing the Heart of the World. I think > someone told me that Gayatri, an early disciple in the book, is no longer > with the movement. Maybe I"m confused with someone else? If it is Gayatri, > does anyone know why she left? =-= om=- Nick > She left not too long after I started seeing Amma. She was the tall red-haired woman who was Amma¹s personal attendant. My impression was that she was burned out and needed a break. I hear she¹s in Hawaii now. I hope she¹s doing well. I¹m sure others have more details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2002 Report Share Posted August 16, 2002 I noticed she was gone a while ago, I wish her the best. Maybe she is teaching all of us a lesson. Some thoghts => ----------------- In India, two extremes appeared to prevail in society; namely, sensual indulgence and self mortification. Prince Siddhartha Gautama realised the in-adequacy of such extremes and sought a middle Path for emancipation from suffering. Thus he (Buddha) practised austerities. But he was not be able to reach the goal. In one Sutta he mentioned: "But by this racking practice of austerities I have not attained any super human states, any distinction in knowledge and vision worthy of the noble ones" ----------- Questioner: "How can I make out whom to follow and whom to mistrust?" Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: "Mistrust all until you are convinced. The true guru will never humiliate you nor will he estrange you from yourself. He will constantly bring you back to the fact of your inherent perfection and encourage you to seek within. He knows you need nothing, not even him, and is never tired of reminding you..." ----------- When the Buddha was walking along the road to Benares following his post-Enlightenment pause he was approached by a wandering ascetic. According to the custom of the time the ascetic greeted him and asked who his teacher was or what doctrine he followed. The Buddha told the wanderling that he was "the Victor and Conqueror of the World, superior to gods and men, an All-Enlightened One beholden to no teacher." The wandering ascetic could see no hint of anything of the Buddha's nature and wandered off as wanderlings are oft to do, mumbling under his breath something like, "If it were only so!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 17, 2002 Report Share Posted August 17, 2002 "Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection..." J. Krishnamurti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 17, 2002 Report Share Posted August 17, 2002 On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, rastanaga wrote: > ----------------- > In India, two extremes appeared to prevail in society; namely, sensual > indulgence and self mortification. Prince Siddhartha Gautama realised > the in-adequacy of such extremes and sought a middle Path for > emancipation from suffering. > > Thus he (Buddha) practised austerities. But he was not be able to > reach the goal. In one Sutta he mentioned: > > "But by this racking practice of austerities I have not attained any > super human states, any distinction in knowledge and vision worthy of > the noble ones" More on this .... After going to so many gurus, following so many paths, practicing so many austerities, becoming emaciated finally and losing his health, he decided to give up extreme austerities and physical tortures, self-inflicted, in the name (the false name) of penance. "Extremities," he realized are not good. Penance is necessary, a certain degree of austerity, and mortification is necessary, but extremes are not in accordance with the law." So saying, he took a little nourishment and sat down under the Bodhi Tree. "Now, no matter what happens," he resolved, "come what may, I am determined to attain enlightenment. If this body has to shrivel up, if the skin has to wither and fall away, if the very bones of my body have to dry up and crumble away, yet Siddhartha will not leave this seat, until and unless illumination is attained. Let the body dry up, let the flesh wither and fall away, let the bones crumble and collapse. Until enlightenment comes, Siddhartha will not budge." Then what a great inner struggle, what a storm and a hurricane he had to pass through! But Siddhartha did not move. Such should be one's determination. ---------- Namashivaya, Girish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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