--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptyb...@...> wrote:
> So what do you now claim to know about the bardo? > > You just read this shit in a book, even though you only believe in > "direct experience". You don't believe anything written in books - > remember? ;-) What fun! (But I think Barry will be boring and say he said "if there is one" as in "I don't see Maharishi as having had a particularly pleasant trip through the Bardo, or a particularly pleasant afterlife, *if there is one*" ;-) ;-) ) > Or did you just die and are now resurrected? That would be much more > interesting. > > If so, then did one of the Buddha-s come to see you because he wanted > your darshan? More likely it was a band of rakshasa-s coming toward you > that you took to be a welcoming party! > > Probably when you realized that your "eternally transmigrating bindu" > (read 'soul') was about to be dragged off to the hell of slashing > swords, you shrieked like a little girl and fled down the akashic ladder > back into your body. > > > > The attending doc probably called staff over to your sputtering body and > said, "I guess he didn't expire from alcohol poisoning after > all. Call respiratory therapy over and take away the code blue > cart." > > > > Hmmm. Maybe I'll start my first novel with that little vignette. > > > You know: Bitches of the Dead that kinda stuff. > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:18 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > > > Bottom line for me is that I consider him a very, > > > > very, very, VERY ordinary person who overstepped > > > > his capabilities and reaped the karma of doing so. > > > > > > Hmmm...not sure what karma you're talking about here~~ > > > becoming fabulously wealthy and living to 92? > > > Doesn't sound so bad to me~~I know any number of > > > people that wouldn't mind reaping that kind of karma. > > > > When it comes to karma, I tend to think multi- > > incarnationally, Sal. I don't see Maharishi as > > having had a particularly pleasant trip through > > the Bardo, or a particularly pleasant afterlife, > > if there is one. WAY too attached to "go gently > > into that dark night." > > > > On another level, one's "karma" is how one is > > remembered after one's passing. Hide much of your > > life for most of your life, and as the truth comes > > out it's difficult for even those who loved you > > the most to remember you completely positively. > > Another reason to just live honestly in the first > > place in my opinion. > > >