--- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> Yes, I also made sure in my post that I separated free will and determinism
> (as
> opposed to predestination). I also hope you haven't read into my posts that I
> am
> somehow an advocate of Advaita Vedanta? I certainly owe a debt of gratitude
> to
> that philosophy for helping to let the penny drop on one or two sticking
> points,
> but I certainly don't share all its tenets (Universal Self etc.). I could say
> the same thing with Zen (as opposed to zen) as I tend to be too eclectic for
> the
> orthodox practioners (for example, going on Vipassana retreats, interest in
> Dzogchen, elements of Hinduism). Alan Watts reads to me much more where I am
> than say, Dogen. The one reason I will always come back to Zen tho, is its
> simpleness and dropping of techniques to live the Realised life.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Hi Mike. Oh no, I try not to read too much into posts. I gathered that you,
> like myself, am rather eclectic, which is unavoidable in this information
> age. You see, I don't disqualify the actual experiences of Advaita Vedanta, I
> just think that perhaps they MAY misinterpret them. As far as that goes, I
> don't believe that any human being, including Gotama, was "all-knowing",
> whatever that means. There are some things you can't learn from meditation,
> imo.
Steve
>
>
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