The modern Buddha

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GuruRatings , " Tony OClery " <aoclery>

wrote:

GuruRatings , " olodumare_4all "

<olodumare_4all> wrote:

> GuruRatings , " Komo Kasha " <unbound@h...>

> wrote:

> > During group interviews at the 8 day July Vipassana retreat

taking

> place at the Palolo Zen center, I said to the teacher that I had a

> chip implanted in my head that sends thoughts and mental state

data

> to a wireless computer. Of course I was putting the teacher Graham

> White on a bit, but the technology to accomplish that is near at

> hand. Ray Kurtzweil recently stated that computing power is now

> powerful enough to reverse engineer the human brain. Along with

the

> recent accelerated development in neurological technology, the

> Modern Buddha (who surely will appear within a reasonable time

> period) is about to present breakthrough technology and

teachings

> that will shorten the period of meditation training for

> enlightenment to as little as one month. One wont have to be

reborn

> for many lifetimes in order to attain moksha.

 

Namaste,

 

Very interesting and soon hard drives will be programming the

programmers. The brain is just an instrument of the mind, meditation

takes place above the mind, so this is a lot of

crapola..........ONS..Tony.

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By daniellaReminds me of Scientology. Which leads to think about Sanscaras (in Sanskrit) Sankaras (in Pali) i.e. (like a very sophisticated VCR that records all sense inputs + the thinking mind) these are the mental impressions created by the mind that takes us away from the moment and, if unaware, are at the root of how we may respond in the future with regard to the past, which binds us and makes bound and unfree. Awareness of the body mind process (through meditation) begins to free us from this process of conditioning. In Scientology they "clear" themselves of the impact of traumatic experiences by talking about them repeatedly (while hooked up to a machine) until the needle eventually "floats." My teacher Goenka used to describe sankaras as similar to lines drawn and characterized them as 3 types: 1) One is like a line drawn on the water that is gone in 2 seconds. 2) The 2nd is like a line drawn in the sand that by evening time people step on them or the sea washes them away. 3) The 3rd is like the line chizeled into the rock and those take many years or life- times to ware away. An example are incest survivors (whose partners I have counseled for years). And perhaps depending on how early (and how intrusively) the crime is perpetrated (Along with past conditioning and karma) will determine how damaged that person's OPERATING system is (vs. applications.) In 1972 when I saw Krishnamurti in Switzerland say that: "it is important to be able to distinguish between an event and ones impressions of that event." So it seems to me that it's not so much about thoughts but one's IMPRESSIONS AND REACTIONS TO THEM that matter. Thoughts, impression, feelings, bodily sensations, aversion to thought, or any other REACTIONS (POSITIVE, NEGATIVE AND NEUTRAL) are all objects worthy of observations in a friendly way, and to whatever degree is the path of the Buddha.