Tim on Ramesh Balsekar

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Hi Tim,

 

You say in your email (see copy below) " ...not to judge " yet you go

right ahead and judge, almost condemning and berating Ramesh Balsekar. On

top of that, you advise people to steer clear of him and that his teaching

is full of holes and " a whole lot of nonsense. " And all of your statements

are based on " ...having never met the man " .

 

Furthermore, you don't give any reasons or explanations why you feel

his teaching is full of holes and nonsense. My sense is that you're telling

us more about YOU (i.e., your conditioned mind) that about Ramesh.

Therefore, I suggest that as you read Ramesh's books, as well as well as go

through your daily life, notice your reactionary mind and realize those

reactions are arising in non-reactive awareness and thereby use Ramesh's

written word (and everything else) as a means to become sensitive to and

stabilize in and as choiceless awareness (i.e., Being).

 

It matters little to me whether Ramesh's or anyone else's " teachings "

are " factually " true. It's whether they can be useful for pointing us

towards the Truth. My sense is that Ramesh's teaching about there being

" God's will only " and " no choice " and " everything being predestined " is that

it is what's referred to as " upaya " in Sanskrit. Upaya is a teaching device

that comes in many forms for facilitating in those inclined to surrender not

TO the " teachings " (as that would still be bondage) but surrender INTO and

AS peaceful being or unconditional acceptance which is the " student's " True

Nature. Personally speaking, I see Ramesh's " formula " that there is God only

and everything is predestined as being very effective for some (apparent)

individuals to surrender seeking and come to rest in and as their True Self.

 

For other folks, Ramesh's approach (upaya) isn't effective. So what else

is new? For them they will continue to seek until they realize that seeking

is NOT where it's at and then they will surrender out of exhausting all

options, exhausting all their strength and ability to seek, a radical

insight occurs into the futility and non-necessity of seeking, or by an act

of Grace by God (Life, Totality, etc.). But even all of this, everything

I've written, is just stuff floating in awareness, dust in the wind. If it

serves, great. If not, keep looking!

 

Just a thought!

 

- Michael

 

 

> Hi,

>

> It seems that Ramesh gets raked over the coals sometimes for

> his 'concept' of destiny/no free will.

 

Ramesh espouses a lot of conceptual B.S., with very little of

the " heart " Nisargadatta displayed. Not to judge him from published

books, having never met the man... but if only books were available,

i would say he's one to avoid at all costs. A whole lot of nonsense.

 

I rarely espouse opinions on 'gurus', but that one raises a flag or

two here.

 

> Do you find any holes in these two concepts?

 

I find holes in every known concept (in fact, concepts are imaginings

with all the solidity of a drug-induced hallucination), so the

specificity of the question is unnecessary :-).

 

Cheers,

 

Tim

 

 

 

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