Disc technology and Shiva

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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:42:25 Greg Goode wrote:

>Hmm, never seen that game. Cool stuff comes from everywhere, though, ne?

 

Ne ? Do you know Japanese ?

 

I thought I'd write something about the game to

the list in the weekend. It's an ephemera,

but it might be fun for some ppl.

 

You asked what I'm studying.

I used to study biology, now I've finally

graduated to work as a lab technician.

 

Don't worry about the posts and don't

apologize.

With the latest rewiring or my brain

I suddenly understood more of the addiction / Moller post. I found it very

interesting.

 

>On the Witness and the Self, mostly, yes. The Witness is the Self, and

>what is witnessed appears to the Self. This is a teaching to show that the

>Self isn't something that arises or is witnessed. It's a teaching model,

>and also a state that people find themselves in. Some teachings offer it

>as THE place to be, or the place that we really ARE in. It is a very, very

>pleasant place to be, but it's still got that subject/object duality going.

> That is, there's still something arising and something to which it arises.

 

I think I see your point and it is what you say

above that has caused my confusion.

I keep switching places and asking myself:

Who's witnessing who ?

So I sort of gave that up a little.

I'm still watching the body do stuff, though,

found that better than portioning out the mind

and watch parts of it.

> Not too

>sure about the Shiva/Shakti model, I think it comes from Kashmir Shaivism,

>and is a more lush, sensuous, theistic way of saying the same things.

 

Yes, Kashmir Shaivism has some colorful

and traditional imagery. I still can't shake this feeling that a lot of what it

says

does point the way and also is very illustrative

of certain things. I actually find the imagery

more to the point, less abstruse and somehow

more well versed with energy than European

alchemy, or Hebrew Khabballa, to which I really

need dictionaries.

KS feels more intuitively accessible to me,

despite coming from a whole different culture

than my own.

Well, medieval Europe and Judaism are very

different from where I grew up as well.

 

Thank you very muchf for your answers.

 

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

 

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