Silently making eye contact and I do remember the word shakitpat being used a few times. In the beginning only teachers and mentors gazed with others. Now everyone gazes with everyone. Since I didn't like it, I'm probably not the best to describe its benefits.
How is shaktipat given in your tradition? guy at the gas station=Buddha At the Gas Pump? Impressed? Most recently I have been impressed by Dr. Nader because he seems brilliant AND compassionate AND down to earth. He is leading a very human life with a wife and children and a medical practice. ________________________________ From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits What is "the gazing"? I've been taught to give shaktipat by my tantra guru but it doesn't involve any "gazing." Sometimes I wonder if these people had any authentic teacher or just some charlatan from India. There are probably more than a few Indians in the US who have learned tantra and some are astrologers and others are quiet maybe helping someone if they ask. And then there is the guy at the gas station who decided to call himself a Swami for some extra money. It's a good thing to spend a few months testing a teacher and boning up on the field through books such as Dr. Robert Svoboda's excellent trilogy (on what it is like to be a westerner learning from an authentic tantric). I would also be interested in what kind of things "impress" people? On 10/16/2012 10:55 AM, Share Long wrote: > laughing because different strokes, etc. I rarely liked the gazing. OTOH, I > wasn't comfortable attending and NOT participating in gazing. And they don't > like people coming late to avoid the gazing... > > > WDM gave me a steady spiritual family when I first left campus. I'll always > be grateful for that. Even so, I was never looking for another theory of > consciounsess, etc. so I didn't mind their lack of that. And I do think the > whole mutuality angle is an important one that very few others discuss. > > > Didn't go last night but am busting with curiosity about it (-: > > > > ________________________________ > From: Alex Stanley <j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:49 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@...> wrote: >> >> >> And it cost $20 too. I see Bonder as a guy with a few ideas, which >> may or may not be helpful to some people. > Waking Down is a small, niche path that is certainly not for everyone. > >> I have heard him twice, and can't say I have been overwhelmingly >> impressed. > I wasn't at all impressed the first time I went to see him and Linda at the > FF library, about 10 years ago. But, on his next trip to FF, he was here with > Pascal Salesses, a WD teacher who had just moved to FF, and I felt a > connection with her. I'm grateful that Saniel started WD, but I've always > connected better with some of the other teachers. And, I can't even begin to > get through his books. For me, the WD experience had nothing to do with > ideas; it was all about the gazing. > > >
