--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > > > Ravi Yogi uses a number of special > terms in his response to me, most of which I do not know, and was kind enough to > amplify them so I could grasp what they connoted. Sorry I just used them so I could come with a set of words that start with similar alphabet. I'm neither a scholar nor intellectual, the words I used are common spiritual terms in Sanskrit.
> > Perhaps the question I am proposing is this: is there a completely generic way > to describe the journey of enlightenment, without the bamboozling > characteristics of a special vocabulary, that would appeal to the widest > audience? There's plenty of giants who have tried bridge this gap; some through intellect - I have really enjoyed Deepak Chopra and Osho in the past and they speak/write well without the religious jargon that can be related by Scientists, Skeptics, Atheists and the like. Some have vanquished these barriers by pure unconditional love - like my beloved mother and Guru Ammachi who devoid of intellectual jargon transforms all. > This could certainly apply to my posts, but also, over-intellectualising doesn't > seem to work very well with simpler folk, but it is often necessary with certain > groups. I realize that on forums the attention span often seems to be about one > sentence in duration. One would think that a group that discussed at length > recently "no mantra, no thoughts" would have a bit more room for a few more > thoughts. > There are plenty of intellectuals and skeptics on list as well, may be your questions are too broad, you could may be start off by breaking your questions into smaller pieces? Posting an initial post with something that bashes TMO and/or MMY will also endear you to many and make more respond, just kidding. I didn't mean to or wouldn't dare to put an end to any discussion. It was just my 3 cents.
