Vedanta perhaps. Shankara said, "I prostate not to the gods. One who is beyond all gods does not salute a god. After that stage, one does no prescribed act. I prostrate again and again to my own self which is the root of all endeavors."
We seek experiences not had, beyond us — some materialize, some, just imagination. What is sought is the end of transcendence. What initially seemed beyond becomes home and was always home. Then all is still even when things are done. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : A Transcendentalist? Your offered definition here below sounds something like it could be the neo-advaitin version of Transcendentalist. That can be a definition of it and that is fine. This academic definition of transcendentalism otherwise I find becomes useful towards describing something more of what spiritual Fairfield, Iowa is about, Transcendentalism: Our initial working definition of transcendentalism, however, will stress a divine force in each individual, a force that is also linked to nature and has the power to transform lives, as well as social institutions. -Professor Ashton Nichols, Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement What is going on in Fairfield, Iowa? How is it going in Fairfield, Iowa? Anymore in reply I usually start off by confirming, “..We’re a bunch of Transcendentalists”, to contextualize what is going on here. This last winter a journalist coming through Fairfield, Iowa during the Presidential caucus cycle coined this term in describing the meditating community here, which I feel is a pretty fair description. The transcendental meditationists The transcendental meditationists who turned an Iowa farm town into a Bernie base https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-transcendental-meditationists-who-turned-an-iowa-farm-town-into-a-bernie-base/2016/01/29/b4de383c-c5e1-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-transcendental-meditationists-who-turned-an-iowa-farm-town-into-a-bernie-base/2016/01/29/b4de383c-c5e1-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html The transcendental meditationists who turned a... https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-transcendental-meditationists-who-turned-an-iowa-farm-town-into-a-bernie-base/2016/01/29/b4de383c-c5e1-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html Fairfield, the enlightenment capital of southeast Iowa, is backing Sen. Sanders in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. View on www.washingtonpost... https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-transcendental-meditationists-who-turned-an-iowa-farm-town-into-a-bernie-base/2016/01/29/b4de383c-c5e1-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <archonangel@...> wrote : It should be noted that a transcendentalist is a spiritual person in progress, but one who has not accomplished the goal. If the goal is accomplished, there is nothing that remains transcendent. The purpose of going beyond is to secure that beyond so it is no longer out of reach, no longer beyond. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : None? That is quite a narrow assumption of what is a spiritual yahoo-group community. Of course this is likely of interest to a people who are experienced transcendentalists if someone is cultivating their native spirituality in practice. It would certainly be of note if these young Royals have studied with The David Lynch Foundation which has touched and opened up so many power brokers of popular culture. Or, likewise have they engaged buddhistic meditational practice or studied with Oprah and Dr. Chopra? It could speak some volumes about where they are at. FairfieldLife: Not the customary analysis of politics and economics but a conversation about spiritual questions. What did it mean for our spiritual lives?" -FRONTLINE
