Guest guest Posted September 19, 2000 Report Share Posted September 19, 2000 Dear Marcia, "If the sun were to doubt itself, it would immediately go out." So said William Blake. I appreciate your honesty and direct speaking. By the way, where are you taking your bullshit meter to be checked? How will you verify your perceptions? By realigning with someone else's perceptions? When your perceptions are repaired will you now agree with the consensus? Love, Dan There is deep beauty in the nectar of this simplicity Sri Dan-Ji. You go straight to the heart of the matter. I am reminded that a couple of years ago on the K-List, someone asked me whether a Guru had verified my experiences, enlightenment, realization (or something like that). The person who asked is a genuinely gentle and a beautiful person, well meaning, and well known in the "spiritual field" and a powerful scholar and a professor at Berkeley. What could I say? Who will verify and how? The nature of Self-Realization leaves no reference point against which to measure. In many traditions, they actually do have "verifiers". But then they have to be verified by others who must be verified by others, etc. It is a paradox. What can be verified cannot be real. How could it? Verification itself implies duality and assumes a boundary, a separate reality than the seer. If it is not here and now, I don't want it! :-) (who ever wants it can have it! :-). Love to all Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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