Re: [FairfieldLife] Avert the danger, before it arises!

2014-03-03 Thread Share Long
Richard, thank you so much. This is such a rich explanation. I appreciate how you not only use the old snake and rope analogy, but also the pot analogy which I've never heard. Also wonderful is how you make the discernment between identification and superimposition. Thanks again for taking the t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Avert the danger, before it arises!

2014-03-02 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 3/2/2014 12:26 PM, Share Long wrote: Richard, I still wish you would say more about what is meant by suffering being caused by the superimposition of the material onto the non material. > The "superimposition" doctrine is the cornerstone of Shankara's Advaita Vedanta. Shankaracharya explain

Re: [FairfieldLife] Avert the danger, before it arises!

2014-03-02 Thread Share Long
Richard, I still wish you would say more about what is meant by suffering being caused by the superimposition of the material onto the non material. On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:15 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:   On 2/18/2014 6:47 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: > Avert the danger

Re: [FairfieldLife] Avert the danger, before it arises!

2014-02-19 Thread Michael Jackson
I was talking about the song And as long as you are quoting the Yoga Sutras: The “pain” Patanjali talks about in 2:16, “Pain that has not yet come is avoidable.” is clarified in the sutra that immediately follows it, 2:17: “The cause of that avoidable pain is the union of the Seer (Purusha) and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Avert the danger, before it arises!

2014-02-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 2/18/2014 8:26 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: > was it Emily Levin who wrote that, or was it someone else? No, I think it was the Indian Patanjali who wrote the Yoga Sutras: "What is to be avoided is suffering that has not yet come." - Yoga Sutra II.16

Re: [FairfieldLife] Avert the danger, before it arises!

2014-02-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 2/18/2014 6:47 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: > Avert the danger before it arises! > "pains 2 avoid "What is to be avoided is suffering that has not yet come." - Yoga Sutra 2.16 It's a little easier to understand when you read the YS in context: 2:15 - Everything is suffering for the wi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Avert the danger, before it arises!

2014-02-18 Thread Michael Jackson
was it Emily Levin who wrote that, or was it someone else? On Wed, 2/19/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Avert the danger, before it arises! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 12:47 AM

[FairfieldLife] Avert the danger, before it arises!

2014-02-18 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Avert the danger before it arises! Every nation wants to be invincible thirsting for underlying principle now we know the way dear Maharishi says: Avert the danger before it arises long before the army mobilizes. In raising world consciousness world purity will grow no enemy will b