Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Note to Rick, Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

Sun, 18 May 2014 03:58:27 -0700 

Om, 
 Rick as you are proly experiencing in these Batgap interviews, someone 
becoming a 'guru' in culture can be different than someone 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 in 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 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.
 
 
 
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  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.
 
 
 
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