Re "Ocean of Bliss: The Recent Sayings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi":
Thanks for the recommendation..
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:12 PM, wrote:
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> Re "So we should KNOW to give importance to nothingness. And then we have
> in our grip the totality.":
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> Thanks for sharing that. The whole MMY quote you post had me purring
> contentedly.
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> What we really need is for someone of intelligence a
Re "So we should KNOW to give importance to nothingness. And then we have in
our grip the totality.":
Thanks for sharing that. The whole MMY quote you post had me purring
contentedly.
What we really need is for someone of intelligence and discrimination to
produce a book - "The Essenti
Junior High level philosophy.
Wiki punditry.
Embarrassing half-baked knowledge.
"Against the Buddhist Subjective idealists (Vijñanavadin-s), who denied the
existence of the external world, Shankara urges a number of arguments, the
first and strongest among which is that we must admit the
So, let's review what we know:
These days almost nobody can read and understand the Sanskrit scriptures so
it's a really good thing that somebody can elucidate what the ancients were
talking about. According to what I've reaed, there is a close affinity
between Advaita Vedanta and Yogacara Buddhis
Yer so right.
"Let's review what we know."
Yep, there's nothing here to know and apparently you got nothing out of it.
"Are we agreed so far?".
Yep, we all agree - nothing here in the beginning, the middle or the end..
thanks, Richard, wonderful explanation from nothingness about nothingness for
the sake of nothingess, all via Maharishi (-:
On Friday, January 31, 2014 10:32 PM, Richard Williams
wrote:
Everything Has Its Basis in Nothing
MMY at Vlodrop, NE
The thing is, everything has its basis i
Everything Has Its Basis in Nothing
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MMY at Vlodrop, NE
The thing is, everything has its basis in nothing. I am not talking poetry
just now, I am talking physics. Everything has its basis in NOTHING. We see
a big tree - thousands of leaves and branches and flowers and frui
On 12/31/2013 10:35 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Back to the usual clap-trap.
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Without enlightenment, there's no Buddha. Without Buddha, there's no
Buddhism. You're not even making any sense, Bill.
The historical Buddha wrote nothing, and the language that he spoke is
no longer extant. T
Back to the usual clap-trap.
If there is no false interpretation then Buddhists are free to believe that:
1. there is an eternal Atman along with
2. a changeless, eternal substance supporting the universe and
3. a personal god who creates people like you to subvert the essential
On 12/31/2013 12:14 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Such “enlightenment” is utter make-believe. It is a false
> interpretation - both of Shankara’s Advaita and of Buddhist
> Mahamudra and Dzogchen.
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First of all, there's no such thing as "false interpretation", because
there are numerous in
The photo you post of Lama Yongden was on the title page of "The Secret Oral
Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects" by Alexandra David-Neel. I bought the book
decades ago in a regular book store and remember the assistant who served me
couldn't stop smirking. Alas, the petty humiliations we must e
Something major happened to him, without any warning, on that mountain in 1976.
Whatever it was, it lasted for more than 10 years, and he spent another 25
years in seclusion trying (apparently successfully) to get rid of it.
<< Robin claimed enlightenment. Professor claims "only as much".
Enl
Robin claimed enlightenment. Professor claims "only as much".
Enlightenment! Enlightenment!
If it was a candy bar we could eat a piece to get "only as much".
If we ate the whole bar we could claim to be "The World Teacher".
Either way, when we got to the end we could say "I gave it up".
Doesn't sound at all like anything I ever saw Robin say, empty (delusional or
otherwise).
"You are not going to get any more enlightenment than you are going to get."
This sound similar to Robin's self-delusion. The real truth has long ago been
put into plain words.
"You are not going to get any more enlightenment than you are going to get."
This sound similar to Robin's self-delusion. The real truth has long ago been
put into plain words.
No one is going to "get" enlightened. Ever!
What is this "enlightenment"? There never was and never will b
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