Introducing myself

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J M de la Rouviere wrote:

> J M de la Rouviere <moller

> Dear friends, I am new to this list, and having read most of your

> postings over the last few days, I must admit considerable

> bewilderment on my part. You all seem so together and clever and

> quick witted. And after having waded through more that 130 posting in

> two days, I still cannot quite make out what this Salon is about. So

> please allow me this question: Is the Salon a forum for serious

> investigation into the possibility of realising the non-dual nature of

> things?. I ask this question because for someone like myself who has

> not realised the the functional, living reality of the non-dual

> condition as an ongoing fact of existence, my interest is still very

> much around the issues of the nature of what it is that prevents such

> a realisation. (May I just say the by 'realisation' I do not mean

> something mental. Here I refer to the 'thing' becoming real, actual

> as in reality) Why is it that so very, very few of us actually find

> his/her way through our state of fragmentation and duality into that

> which is whole? Like many of you, I could probably also write a book

> on non-duality. And like yourselves, I have studied the great

> teachers and so on. But after all of us have come to the agreement

> that there is such a condition of undivided wholeness, what is it in

> us that prevents us from ACTUALLY realising it in our lives? How many

> of us can ACTUALLY walk our talk?And is it our 'deep abiding'

> (J.Krishnamurti) interest to change from the dualistic perspective to

> that which in non-dual, taking in consideration the profound impact of

> such a change on our entire being? I have gone rather deeply into

> these and other related questions, and if any of you are interested

> you may please e-mail me personally. It may of course also be useful

> to discuss it openly on this forum. The reason for my hesitancy is

> that I tend to chew over these matters in a rather slow and integral

> way, while things seem to move very fast in the forum's

> communications. But it may be worthwhile giving it a try. Hope some

> of you can resonate with these questions.

> moller

 

You ask beautiful and profound questions Moller. Thank you for being

here.

I will forward this post to as well.

Love you all.

 

Harsha

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Claude,

 

>

> May I introduce myself?

 

You may, and with pleasure

 

> I am relatively new to the advaita

> philosophy. I say relatively because years ago, I read "Commentaries

> on life" by J. Krishnamurti and was not knowing that he spoke of

> advaita. I began to re-read them to my benefice a few weeks ago.

>

> I also studied psychosynthesis, a psychological approach largely

> inspired by Hindu philosophies. I learned during those years the

> concepts of I, Self and identification/desidentification from the

> differents facets our ego can take. So, these list's posts are

> familiar to me though I am not educated in the real matter of

> origin.

 

 

I'm not educated in 'spiritual' concepts at all. Many on this

are very educated in various practices so there is always

something interesting to consider and/or assimilate.

 

> I am now practicing a form of qigong (energy work) emphasizing

> silence and non-doing. I find in advaita (what I can find on the

> web about it) an interesting and helping philosophical background

> for my practice.

>

> Last weekend, I bought " Be as you are - Teachings of Sri Ramana

> Maharshi" and I find this reading very inspiring and liberating.

> The presented notions do not seem very complicated but it is an

> other thing to really integrate them in day to day life.

 

It happens if you want it, I think? I don't worry about it or

work on it but it just seems to have permeated my day to day

life somehow. Good luck... or grace...

 

> My mother language is French and I am not really fluent in English,

> so I think it will be enough for my intro.

 

The French language has a beautiful sound... hmmm

Nice intro...

Your English is fluent.

 

> Best regards to all of you, friends of the essential Truth of

>Reality.

 

 

What else is there? :-)

Best regards to you from me,

Love

Annie