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Harsha wrote:

>

>

> Thanks for sharing this John.

>

> Ken Wilber certainly is eloquent and a master of words. One wonders whether

> some one so infatuated with language and conditioned to think in terms of

> past and future understands the nature of NOW, not as an intellectual

> exercise but as a living Reality.

>

> Love to all

> Harsha

 

Oh God Harsha you hit the nail right on the head! Can I share this at Ken wilber

Forums? My friends would love it! It is exactly how I have felt for 3 years

about Ken. What a conglomeration of profound wisdom playing as complicated word

mazes!

 

:-)

 

Peace,

 

Colette

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John Metzger [riverjohn77]

Monday, September 18, 2000 7:11 AM

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi and time

 

But if genuine spirituality is not, as I maintain, a product of

the past (or of past archetypes), then what about the great spiritual

figures, East and West, who definitely existed in the past? What about the

Buddhas, the Christs, the Krishnas? Are they not expressing some past

capacity, some past archetypal wisdom that we have lost contact with? And

in contacting our own spirituality, aren't we contacting some past

potential that we have lost or denied or forgotten?

Lost, perhaps; but not from the past. Let me repeat what I said

above about the "true archetypes", the transcendental and transpersonal

structures, as a reminder: they cannot be explained as an inheritance from

the past; they are strange Attractors lying in our future, omega points

that have not been collectively manifested anywhere in the past, but are

nontheless available to each and every individual as structural potentials,

as future structures attempting to come down, not past structures

struggling to come up. The great and rare mystics of the past (from Buddha

to Christ, from al-Hallaj to Lady Tsogal, from Hui-neng to Hildegard) were,

in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours.

In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the

past. They are figures of the future. In their spirituality, they did not

tap into yesterday, they tapped into tomorrow. In their profound awareness,

we do not see the setting sun, but the new dawn. They absolutely did not

inherit the past, they inherited the future.

from Sex, Ecology, Spirituality Ken Wilber

 

__________________________

_________

 

Thanks for sharing this John.

 

Ken Wilber certainly is eloquent and a master of words. One wonders whether

some one so infatuated with language and conditioned to think in terms of

past and future understands the nature of NOW, not as an intellectual

exercise but as a living Reality.

 

Love to all

Harsha

 

//

 

All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights,

perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside

back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than

the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness.

Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is

where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal

Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously

arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a.

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Harsha, I should apologize for excerpting and/or misrepresenting Ken

Wilber. Having spent some time with his writings, I can only surmise

that he is highly aware of his conditioning and, moreover, of the

nature of Now as a living Reality... I could be wrong. Peace and

thanks for moderating such a fine community, John

 

, "Harsha" <harsha-hkl@h...> wrote:

>

> John Metzger [riverjohn77@e...]

> Monday, September 18, 2000 7:11 AM

>

> Sri Ramana Maharshi and time

>

> But if genuine spirituality is not, as I maintain, a

product of

> the past (or of past archetypes), then what about the great

spiritual

> figures, East and West, who definitely existed in the past? What

about the

> Buddhas, the Christs, the Krishnas? Are they not expressing some

past

> capacity, some past archetypal wisdom that we have lost contact

with? And

> in contacting our own spirituality, aren't we contacting some past

> potential that we have lost or denied or forgotten?

> Lost, perhaps; but not from the past. Let me repeat what

I said

> above about the "true archetypes", the transcendental and

transpersonal

> structures, as a reminder: they cannot be explained as an

inheritance from

> the past; they are strange Attractors lying in our future, omega

points

> that have not been collectively manifested anywhere in the past,

but are

> nontheless available to each and every individual as structural

potentials,

> as future structures attempting to come down, not past structures

> struggling to come up. The great and rare mystics of the past (from

Buddha

> to Christ, from al-Hallaj to Lady Tsogal, from Hui-neng to

Hildegard) were,

> in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours.

> In other words, they most definitely are not figures of

the

> past. They are figures of the future. In their spirituality, they

did not

> tap into yesterday, they tapped into tomorrow. In their profound

awareness,

> we do not see the setting sun, but the new dawn. They absolutely

did not

> inherit the past, they inherited the future.

> from Sex, Ecology, Spirituality Ken Wilber

>

>

____________________

______

> _________

>

> Thanks for sharing this John.

>

> Ken Wilber certainly is eloquent and a master of words. One wonders

whether

> some one so infatuated with language and conditioned to think in

terms of

> past and future understands the nature of NOW, not as an

intellectual

> exercise but as a living Reality.

>

> Love to all

> Harsha

>

> //

>

> All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights,

> perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and

subside

> back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not

different than

> the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of

Awareness.

> Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home.

Home is

> where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of

Eternal

> Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge,

spontaneously

> arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a.

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