My Dinner With Lewis (directed by Louis Malle)

[Guest guest]

Gary: Lewis, you are obviously very intelligent and have a broad base of

knowledge, it would seem.

Tell us, therefore, if you will, just what brought you to " hang out " online

with a bunch of mystically-oriented (some might say, " airy-fairy " )

spiritual seekers? Would you say that in some manner you are " spiritual

seeker " yourself?

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , " gary falk " <falkgw@h...> wrote:

 

 

Gary: Lewis, you are obviously very intelligent and have a broad

base of knowledge, it would seem. Tell us, therefore, if you will,

just what brought you to " hang out " online with a bunch of

mystically-oriented (some might say, " airy-fairy " ) spiritual seekers?

Would you say that in some manner you are " spiritual seeker " yourself?

 

Lewis: Seeming is all that it is for the first. For the second, that

was explained in nauseating detail, in various ways before, here and

elsewhere on some of the same lists you frequent, Gary. I accidently

found the list researching Shambala for a friend, stepped into a

dialogue here on the Niz list with Anders Lindman offering two cents

about his concern with time and then little by little read and found

the dialogues interesting and stimulating by the different voices and

views, perspectives, approaches, and the varying modes of responses

underwent experiences never had before, and would never had had

otherwise, through the dialogues. All of it works something like

tilling a field for the first time where you do not know what is in it

until the plow(s) pulls it up and you say, Well, well what have we

here, that never appeared before? All kinds of stuff bubbled and

bubbles up: ignorance, beliefs, attachments that are seen and popped

as it goes or not, as well as new expressions, new perceptions, and

new language that emerges in the interactions and that give voice to

undefined sensations flowing in a transparent darkness and new stories

about it all.

 

And, no, Gary, there is no seeking truth or answers or spirituality of

some final or absolute type or any type. That goose has been cooked

and eaten. There is desire to explore in dialogue the wonders of

living and creating from any perspective. That is just the way it has

always been since childhood; curosity coming out the kazoo. Almost all

that is known (98%?) about Advaita Vedanta, Hinduism and Buddhism in

its various forms, and the figures and writings and teachings of

Ramana, Nisargadatta, Sankara, Nagarjuna, Lacan, and many many others

and the hearings presented were before unexplored and were met and

studied here for the first time. The language and conceptual worlds

were and are learned, explored and employed in daily living to see

what it is about and then put down in the way that is done. Before

this, it was consciousness and brain science, social anthroplogy,

phenomenology, dialogism, ethnomethodology, and other divisions in the

social sciences concerned with the construction and maintenance of

social realities.

 

There are no answers here; nothing to offer but conversation,

exploration of all things in this way or that or no way at all and

sometimes a few laughs and sometimes making a contribution to what

appears as annoyance to some at what is said in all the ways that is

possible and offering challenges as it goes.

 

That's it.

 

Lewis

[Guest guest]

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gary falk

Nisargadatta

Monday, May 23, 2005 5:18 PM

" My Dinner With Lewis " (directed by Louis Malle)

 

 

Gary: Lewis, you are obviously very intelligent and have a broad base of

knowledge, it would seem.

Tell us, therefore, if you will, just what brought you to " hang out " online

with a bunch of mystically-oriented (some might say, " airy-fairy " )

spiritual seekers? Would you say that in some manner you are " spiritual

seeker " yourself?

 

 

Gary,

 

How goeth thy gig? Please share.

 

Eagerly awaiting,

 

Roseannadanna

 

 

 

 

 

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