Guest guest Posted August 24, 2002 Report Share Posted August 24, 2002 Hello! Thanks for your explanations! I am contemplating about it! this whole Advaita stuff is just quite complicated (meaning: It APPEARS complicated, to MY personal Reality-Tunnel ((Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson)) aloha from Switzerland fox - hurg Nisargadatta Saturday, August 24, 2002 4:50 AM Re: al there is , is totality is wrong? hi fox, there is nothing wrong with the statement "all there is, is Totality." I think you need to read the entire post to see what i mean. Have you noticed how some of the new age believers use the impersonal words such as Totality, Universe, Existence etc in a very similar way they used to use the word God? Once the principle "all there is, is Totality" is established, then comes the personal relationship with Totality, they pray to Universe, they are annoyed by Existence. Although there is nothing wrong with any of this, my post was about the madness of being human which is a very personal experience. HurNisargadatta, "fox" <feel@f...> wrote:> Hur!> > You said: "all there is, is Totality" (which is supposed to be wrong)> > why is that not ok, what is wrong with that statement?> > fox> > - > hurg > Nisargadatta > Friday, August 23, 2002 8:51 AM> all there is, is Totality> > > some people get hooked on advaita because they imagine that the > fleeting glimpse of the nondual awareness they have experienced, the > mysterious grace is GOD.. though it may just be a mental state, a > neurological disorder where the sense of self (the little self, ego), > sense of doership malfunctioned and didn't kick in the way it was > designed to do so. > > god is the anon, unknown causes, the uncertainty, the sum of all > personal love and fear. god is the other, the big daddy who's always > watching the paranoid mind. > > the difference between myths and thinking is that myths tell you the > magic plug in figure for all the uncertain formulations is > GOD...thinking says for example, the cause is water, consciousness, > or ice cream. greeks thought sea storms were caused by the sea god. > you can say the cause is water, wind, ice cream and even advaitans' > almighty Consciousness and all these answers may turn out to be wrong > but it's better than saying "all there is, is Totaliy." it's as > redundant as saying "every formula equals its Total." yeah, duh. > > the people who say "all there is, is god" and worship the persona of > the existence, their facial expressions will quickly turn sour > when "god" in another format says no to them. people who cling on to > these sort of delusions, very often their personal lives are a mess > but they'll keep on telling you "all there is, is god" till they're > blu in the face. why is that? why is it that they have this need? in > turkish there is a very cruel saying. "the hungry chicken will > imagine itself in a cereal warehouse." is religion a mental illness > or a therapy for mental illness? i have no idea but it's madness.> > why am i saying all this? if you're programmed to believe in god, > enjoy sex, you'll continue to do so and why should you stop anyway if > it pleases you? please excuse me but it's also my program at this > stage of my life to enjoy questioning these sort of things.> > hur> > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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