On Mar 20, 2007, at 8:12 AM, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis wrote:
Vaj writes snipped big time: The classic distinction between a "gradual" path and a "sudden" path. Tom T: It seems that I have heard from one of the Advaitans that the path is always gradual until it becomes sudden. Tom
There are no hard and fast rules that apply to everyone. Some people will have the capacity for nondual "non-mediation" from the get go, but indeed most (as you observed) will need a dualistic approach before they can find the View of non-meditation and gain certainty in that View.
You definitely see this in the history of the first nondual teachers in this country. They at first would teach from a radical, nondual POV and transmit that state of presence simply through their own presence. A few got it. Most did not. And thereafter they developed graduated paths geared towards where different students were.
