Another one bites the dust?
--- markmeredith2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Article critical of Ramesh Balsekar:
> >
> > http://www.inner-quest.org/Real_Advaita.htm
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> I'm not sure what to make of the charges concerning
> balsekar, but I
> highly recommend Timothy Conway's essay on advaita
> and ethics towards
> the bottom of this link. Here's a section from his
> essay:
>
> It is terribly important to distinguish "the
> Understanding" (one of
> Ramesh's favorite terms to describe the "final
> state") with authentic
> liberation/moksha/nirvana. It's pretty easy for
> anyone to come to the
> former, a clear mental-intuitive understanding of
> nondual teachings,
> which brings a certain clarity, confidence and
> mellow state (rather
> like what Alan Watts once joked would provide most
> people with a
> "mystic experience": walk around for a week with
> two-pound weights in
> your shoes and then take the weights out and walk
> around...) It's
> quite another thing to be authentically free or
> liberated from the
> samskara-forces fueling an ego sense and pulling and
> pushing it around
> via the binding likes and dislikes. Just to have
> "the understanding of
> freedom" without genuine freedom is a colossal
> illusion, and easily
> degenerates into the kind of narcissism, lack of
> empathy, and tendency
> to exploit other sentient beings that we have
> witnessed among so many
> half-baked teachers. This is why, incidentally, the
> great Ch'an/Zen
> masters distinguish between the preliminary,
> temporary
> "enlightenments," what the Japanese Zen masters term
> "satori" or
> "kensho," and the final, real freedom of total
> liberation:
> anuttara-samyak-sambodhi.
>
> Yes, there is only the nondual One Awareness, right
> HERE, right NOW.
> Yes, ultimately "nothing matters." Yes, there is no
> need to fabricate
> and carry around any baggage of egoic striving,
> regrets, loathing, or
> self-loathing. But there needs to be accountability.
> One must
> genuinely LIVE the liberated state. Not just talk
> about "the
> Understanding."
>
> Jesus is alleged to have said, "By their fruits ye
> shall know them: a
> good tree produces good fruits, a rotten tree gives
> rotten fruit."
> That pretty much sums it up.
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