No time to summarize, but I’ll be posting it on BatGap. You mean there was something going on that was more spiritual than an interview with me? I’m shocked.
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 9:41 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick, Conderning his own interview Dear Rick; your thesis and take-away? What was your thesis last nite in your own live interview down at the FF public library? With Way too many spiritual things going on in FF at any given time, for those of us who were at other satsanga or doing spiritual things elsewhere, what came to be your thesis in the interview during your meeting as it evolved? Did you feel that you may have had to color what you said, because it was sponsored by the Waking Down satsanga or the TM organization might have been there? Just wondering, -Buck “Because of his exposure to the wide range of awakening modalities and spiritual teachings alive in the world today, Rick is uniquely situated to comment on what is going on out there. It promises to be a rich evening.” -From the public meeting announcement in the Fairfield Weekly Reader Rick as you are proly experiencing in these interviews, becoming a guru in culture can be different than abiding in spiritual experience. In a range and distribution of spiritual folks some can become 'gurus' by virtue of just scholarship alone without even much abiding experience. Others by virtue of ability to teach and talk spiritual technique, or others with having an abiding spiritual transformational effect for others by spiritual field affect. Sat- gurus it would seems would be good at combinations of all three: 1)scholarly, 2)knowledgable and good with techniques, and 3) with field effect of spiritual healing and help in Being. It would be nice to learn where Sam Harris in experience is in effect with this scale as he is becoming a famous talking head in culture. Some people evidently can become cultural gurus just by virtue of their intellectual understandings even without experience. Rick, invite Sam Harris to come to Fairfield to join us in our home of all Knowledge for the Batgap interview. That could be good for stirring the deeper discussion of his spiritual experience and figure out if his is an abiding one. -Buck What is his spiritual experience around this that would allow him to be on Buddha at the Gas Pump anyway? > punditster writes: Buck, I think the key word here is "Buddha"- maybe Harris is a practicing "Buddhist". Go figure. There are some who would label all Buddhists atheists, but that is not really correct. Buddhists admit that there are many entities in the universe that can't be seen by man. Millions of Buddhist worldwide consider the gods to be sacred. But, these entities are not capable of offering Buddhists the saving grace, because they are not enlightened. A Buddhist believes in enlightenment - that's why they are referred to as "Buddhists"- enlightenment is not dependent on deities to instill the gnostic insight. There are clear parallels between the Vajrayana and the Vedanta point of view. It's not complicated. Buck, I think the key word here is "Buddha"- maybe Harris is a practicing "Buddhist". Go figure. There are some who would label all Buddhists atheists, but that is not really correct. Buddhists admit that there are many entities in the universe that can't be seen by man. Millions of Buddhist worldwide consider the gods to be sacred. But, these entities are not capable of offering Buddhists the saving grace, because they are not enlightened. A Buddhist believes in enlightenment - that's why they are referred to as "Buddhists"- enlightenment is not dependent on deities to instill the gnostic insight. There are clear parallels between the Vajrayana and the Vedanta point of view. It's not complicated.
