thanks, Richard, wonderful explanation from nothingness about nothingness for 
the sake of nothingess, all via Maharishi (-:





On Friday, January 31, 2014 10:32 PM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
 
  
Everything Has Its Basis in Nothing



MMY at Vlodrop, NE


The thing is, everything has its basis in nothing. I am not talking poetry just 
now, I am talking physics. Everything has its basis in NOTHING. We see a big 
tree - thousands of leaves and branches and flowers and fruits. What it the 
basis of a tree? The basis of a tree is: hollowness - within the seed. And 
hollowness within the seed is nothingness, from where the whole tree springs. 
So that thing is very clear, that everything comes up from nothing. 
Transcendental Meditation is the experience of nothingness.

But that nothingness is like the hollowness of the bunyan seed which has the 
basis of all the innumerable expressions. The thing is that my hand comes up, 
my eyes begin to see, my ears begin to hear. Where is 'I'? Hmmm? 'I' is that 
nothingness which sees through the eyes, through the ears, it moves the hands. 
That, in the Vedic terminology, is called 'devata'. 

'Devata', if we want to translate, we say 'creative intelligence'. Devata is 
that infinite field of creativity - and different fields of creativity, within 
the hollowness of the seed. From within, the leaves come up, the branches come 
up, the flowers come up. These are different devatas which bring out the 
leaves, which bring out the flowers, which bring up. It's a different 
terminology. It's a different terminology which gives ex-
pression to the values of nothingness. So let us know for all time that 
nothingness. We can call it in any term, but it's nothingness, it's 
abstraction, it's unmanifest reality.

In the Vedic terms: nirgun nirakar. Nirgun nirakar - without any quality, 
without any shape. It's the field of the unmanifest. The field of the 
unmanifest is that unified field, where all the diverse values are present, not 
in the physical form, but in the form of abstract memories. In the Vedic terms 
they say smritis. In the smritis all the memories are there in the unmanifest. 
All the memories are there in the unmanifest, the same way as all the memories 
of the leaves, branches, flowers, fruits, they're all there in the nothingness 
within the hollowness of the seed.

So we should KNOW to give importance to nothingness. And then we have in our 
grip the totality. By grabbing on to nothingness, to transcendental 
consciousness - which is abstraction, nothingness - we say self-referral 
consciousness, self-referral consciousness, self-referral intelligence, where 
all the different values are there in the unmanifest state. Transcendental 
Meditation takes us to experience that nothingness.

An experience of nothingness is that experience which utilizes total physiology 
of the brain. Total physiology is put to use, is put to function, in the 
experience of that nothingness, which is the field of all knowledge, all 
action, all dynamism - the field of total natural law. And we say the field of 
the light of God, almighty God, the light of almighty God. So when we say 
'nothingness', we mean there is no boundaries, there is no distinctions, there 
is nothing in isolation, there is one unified platform - unbounded nothingness. 
And there - different qualities of creative intelligence - different qualities 
of creative intelligence. 

In the Vedic literature - Shiva, Vishnu, Ganapati, Surya - all these different, 
different devatas - huge amount of devatas, devatas, devatas, devatas, devatas. 
They are the expressions of different qualities of creative intelligence. So 
let us know forever that if there is anything that should be known, it is 
nothingness that has to be known. And transcendental meditation is that 
nothingness which is the seat of all the laws of Nature, the seat of all 
possibilities - where all these wrong things, negative things of the dark ages, 
all that will disappear.

Source:
http://www.tmbulletin.net/



On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Richard J. Williams <pundits...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

On 12/31/2013 10:35 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Back to the usual clap-trap.
>>
>
Without enlightenment, there's no Buddha. Without Buddha, there's no Buddhism. 
You're not even making any sense, Bill.
>
>The historical Buddha wrote nothing, and the language that he spoke is no 
>longer extant. This being the case, a person such as yourself could hardly 
>know what the Buddha taught about much of anything about ay secret doctrines. 
>Apparently you can't even understand any Tibetan. Go figure.
>
>However, based on the research of learned scholars such as Robert Thurman, we 
>can infer that the Buddha maintained a strict silence on the matters of the 
>first cause. Not for nothing did they call the Buddha the Shakya the Muni,  
>"the silent sage" of the Shakya clan. It's just not enough to declare all the 
>historians to be "clap-trap". You've got to at least makes sense if you are 
>going to participate in a discussion about the historical Buddha.
>

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