On 02/10/2012 01:08 PM, Yifu wrote:
http://www.shivashakti.com/schools.htm
Note on the 1331 Pundits. The usage of the numbers of Pundits (1, 11, 121,
1331,...) is a hilarious corruption of the actual application of those
numbers sourced in Pascal's triangle and possibly imported from independent
Chinese and European discoveries (proably the former).
...
The triangle begins:
1;
1, 1;
1, 2, 1
1, 3, 3, 1
1, 4, 6, 4, 1;
...
denoting a distribution of a set of entites into subsets, not 1,331 or
(121).
For example:
One previous contributor for the time being kicked off this forum seemed to
categorize people into 3 types: a. Those Enlightened vs Unenlightened, b.
females and males (he had a preference for females); and c. Those who perform
a certain sex act which won't be mentioned.
...
For those interested in the math, this makes 8 possible types of people if
each category has only 2 possibilities with no in-betweens.
The distribution suming to 8 is (1, 3, 3, 1); with the 1's on either side
amounting to (for example); people with a certain trait among all three vs
the other 1 on the right, those NOT.
...
Example: say the subsets are (a,b,c) = yes: a1 = Enlightened, a2 = NOT
Enlightened. b = b1 = female, b2 = male. c1 = performs the particular sex
act, while c2 does NOT perform that particular act.
...
Thus, if a person is (a2, b2, c1); he would be Unenlightened, male, and
performs that act. There are 8 possible outcomes with a distribution of (1,
3, 3, 1). That's not 1,331 as in the numbers of Pundits. It's a
distribution.
However, IF there were 1,3,3,1 Pundits, all of them would be male, some
Enlightened while the rest not; and some would of course might perform that
particular sex act while others don't.
Tantra tends to be anarchistic so organized schools tend not to
exist. Most of the real tantra exists in villages and is one on one
teaching. Since acharyas have the right to create new practices it can
vary from village to village. Westerners always seem to want to put
things in neat little packages.
