tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49092520166207180732024-09-09T18:22:26.028-07:00Societal philosopherVinny Coochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615771108845650916noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909252016620718073.post-53026070765851367002008-01-11T08:50:00.001-08:002008-01-11T08:50:07.386-08:00

Hoots mon a Scots version o' the Gita"I am the Sel, o Gudakesa, biding in the hehrt o' alkin, I am the unbegownyn, the mydde, and the hend o' alkin!"(Sri Krishna in Bhagavad Gita)Found on Foostie MuseI'm lovin' it.

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"We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear." (U.G. Krishnamurti)...and the internet is bloomin' well filled with "talk about freeing ourselves."Have you seen the number of yahoo groups devoted to good old Ramana Maharshi, UG/J.Krishnamurti, Buddha, and Sri Obla dee and Obla da?The links

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Saddays the Sage of Arunachala list eeza closed.Time it happn'd. All these doofers crappin' away. Dun'no how Nan Yar put up with eet. Bunch of pseuds quackin' advaita with that fuguin' mantra "not two not two but look at me look at me and what i know what i know o my godddddddddmmmmmm"He's got a nouveau secret group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vichara101dun'no if I should say but you

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Hey man! Fancy some Zen cooking?Guruphiliac - Zen Soup Bones

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Now there's a headline I never thought likely. Crikey!! ACALAYOGA: Rock and Roll and Ramana Maharshi

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For all you AWA (awareness watching awareness) probies. Remember!If you do not do your spiritual practice everyday all hell will break loose.This link also reveals that you can take a shower, you can work BUT entertainment is not necessary.Scary canaries.

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it's bad news. some dude called michael james has let the coon out of the bag. my man Nisargadatta's ideas in english are "confusing and questionable". what! is it for real? it sure is. this dude can tell without speaking Nisargadatta's mother-tongue. he's so clued up he can just "glance" at the english and say it's wrong. that's a neat trick. siddhis! has to be. siddhis! he's a big siddhi!thanks

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Dave: I've had problems with my 6th shaakra. It just won't open. There must be a blockage.Jani: Are you constipated?Dave: No. Not that kind of blockage. I mean the energy seems unable to flow.Jani: What energy?Dave: You know - Kundalini energy - the serpent power.Jani: I see. You understand these things do you?Dave: Of course I do. You know that I hold regular courses for seekers.Jani: Sorry, it

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James: My guru has had a face lift. Jani: A face lift? What for?James: I believe it is so that the appearance appears younger and more appealing to existing and prospective disciples. Jani: Ah! I see. Appearances are so important for one who puts themselves in the public eye.James: I thought you would be annoyed.Jani: Annoyed? Why would I be annoyed that your guru has had a face lift?James: I

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So... "aliveness is all there is and this aliveness is happening to no one... apparently." Tony ParsonsI spent a bit of time looking at the YouTube videos which come up when one searches for 'advaita'. Some of them are a scream. Conversations/lectures circling around nothing, like linguistic vultures, punctured by [in]appropriate laughter which serves to relieve the tension of the prey. If there

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I was sent a link to an interesting video on YouTube. It's a bit Blair Witch Projecty but that seems to add to the action.ISKCON continues to go through the doldrums. Here we see a civil war at Ratha Yatra in Detroit. It is a not so epic battle between those who would follow Srila Prabhupada as the sole guru of the movement and those who would follow the zonal acharyas who seem to drop like flies

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"Shhaaakraa, you have a blockage in your base shhaaakraa," the shakra therapist said, in a dreamy voice."Shhaaakraa?" said I, questioning the pronunciation."Shhhaaaakraa!" the therapist said as if to draw a line under it."May I say something?" I asked."Of course, my love." the shakra therapist said."I believe you may be pronouncing the word cakra wrong. The word sounds like the English word "

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I read a blog entry today which harped on and on and on and on about dead gurus and how those who followed such long gone doggone dead ones were doing so because it was a safe option. Now it would appear that this chappy reckons that this is a recipe for disaster and will "preserve the sense of separation and feed fixation." Now the question begs - who is more attached to the body and the

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Fervently desire the unattainable otherwise all that you will find will be that which you expect... and that which you expect can only be relative fiction - never absolute truth. Those who find, and are content with, that, which they expect, believing it to be absolute, are responsible for the preponderance of the various schools of thought. A little bit of relative fiction mistaken for the whole

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Jani sat down and made himself comfortable. The gentle sound of the nearby stream, which was located a short walk downhill, and to the left, unseen, behind some bushes, washed over him. He sat, content, concentrating on the cleansing sound. Suddenly, quail song (Ophrysia superciliosa), a shrill whistle, cut through the sruti note of the mountain stream, as the perpetrator fluttered quickly

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A conversation you don't often overhear in the coffeehouse:"I've just had satsang.""Who with?""Joe from around the corner.""Joe? Who is Joe?""You know Joe. He is often out and about with his dog. He's a bus driver.""Joe's not a very exotic name, is it? Aren't these folks that give satsang normally called something exotic, like 'Mango-ji'? What kind of satsang does he give? Does he do chants and

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I think I begin to understand this infatuation with serial commercial satsang.It is symptomatic of modern life. We watch celebrity chefs prepare exotic food dishes on television with little or no attempt to learn how to prepare the dishes ourselves. Voyeurism suffices. It is the same with programmes on dog training, weight loss, DIY. We are happy to watch but make little or no serious attempt to

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It is strange that the fatalist-sics are happy to quote the Maharshi and drop his name into conversation at every opportunity and yet he recommends effort to attain the Self.In Ramana Gita, it is clearly stated that the seeker of knowledge must go further than mere study of the scriptures. There must also be upasana. Ganapati Muni (author of Ramana Gita) has chosen an interesting word here, "

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The conflation of fatalism with non-dualism and the subsequent assumption that "there is nothing you can do" is unfortunate. It is the interpretation of a lazy mind. For such a lazy mind to parade as an enlightened mind is symptomatic of this pick and mix 'new age'.Now I could simply say that 'for anyone seeking 'enlightenment', effort is not only possible but necessary" and leave it at that but

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A couple of friends popped in today. We got to chatting about this and that and a question arose which lead to a convoluted discussion. I listened for a while. It was much of the same old, same old, neo advaita. You know the stuff that begins "there is not a thing you can do..." and then goes off on one. Apparently this type of fatally-sic philosophy is becoming increasingly prevalent and very

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Unless one operates directly from the innate state of common sense, any reference to "non-duality" holds validity only as a dogmatic position set up in opposition to its counterpart 'duality'.

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Idea-"I", the reader [and narrator], is a figment. The narrative of 'my' life never touches the truth of life. The narrative, no matter how accurate it appears to 'me', is a fiction. 'I' invent it, and re-invent it, at every given opportunity.This persuasive myth, devoid of independent confirmation, is perpetuated by the aberrant use of thought. Cut off the steady stream of thought and the

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Common Sense - is innate. It is the birthright of one and all.Decisions and acts, which operate from that basic innate state of common sense, without subjection to overlays of egotistic wants, are always right and proper. These decisions and acts are, without doubt, in tune with Nature. Where common sense holds court, greed has no place. The depths to which human society falls from grace is in

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Time is relative and the fact, that it is, is relevant.Like a colony of short-lived parasites that sets up home in a tree, causing a wholesale destruction, which ultimately contributes to its own demise, human society has assumed dominion over planet earth, without due care and attention.Like the tree, the earth will rejuvenate. The parasites will become no more than a distant memory echoed in

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