I have to run, so I’ll have to cogitate on that for a bit. I appreciate your willingness to share your experiences Tom. While I think that I’ll always be a skeptic, I love stories and I love to ponder the imponderable. Thank you TomH & Seeker for engaging with me in the play of ideas. Namaste and I’ll be back!
ummm… well, here at the publishing company, we certainly have plenty of writers submitting works in which their brain was not used.
I’m sure you merely jesting, Ralph.
But not “having knowledge” and “having a still mind” can be very different things. To be “familiar” with the concept of “No-Mind” on paper is very different from experiencing it first hand, even if only momentarily. Worlds away from each other. As with any knowledge that is not understood on a practical level.
This is not the same as ‘ignorance is bliss”. It is knowing how to allow the knowledge to turn off and just… exist.
That is why people intoxicate themselves with Drink, Excess Food, Coffee, etc… to distance themselves from their chattering mind and to attempt to forget all they have stored. The human experience is constantly allowing us to forget so that we may make room for new understandings.
Also, my take was that in moving up the spinal ladder, to reach the upper levels requires a recognition (acceptance?) of the lower.
more like knowing there is no ‘upper’ and ‘lower’.
Abstaining is merely a different kind of drug, or intoxicant. Not abstaining as the end all be all, but learning to abstain from one pleasure (sex, food, coffee) to enjoy the intoxication of it’s counter-balance. (celibacy, fasting, sleep).
And stuff.
Oh, and Tom, boobs are divine in their own right. I’m a Boobist. A Mammoriest.
I highly recommend our various manifestations of Cullen attend the full weekend retreat Gangaji is holding right here in Asheville. Not enough money? I’ll chip in, got a drawer full of wooden nickles.
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“Some of our friends find your antics amusing. I find them boring. Think it’s about time for you to go sit with Gangaji again. maybe you’ll have another satori and get out of this juvenile behavior. You should do the whole weekend.”
Now, if I had written this to him, he would have waved an emoticon finger at me.
I am most certainly not Cullen the NamVet. I just find Tom hypocritical and so in need of mocking.
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Dont take yourself so seriously. It is one of the steps to enlightenment: Lighten Up!
What would you know about enlightenment? Nada!
The Bliss Kiss ended in a few days and ‘crap’ appeared in experience again, and still does. But my association with her the last 4 years has been so special to me.
ummm… well, here at the publishing company, we certainly have plenty of writers submitting works in which their brain was not used.
I’m sure you merely jesting, Ralph.
ummm.... you don’t know much about the publishing business, do you? about 95% of the stuff we and most publishers get is pure crap—no other way to describe this fools scrap of juvenile thoughts or slavish imitation of far better writers. Of the remaining 5% that LOOKS like the writer has at the very least TRIED to put it in a readable format, we look at in mostly vain hope of finding something a) publishable and b) maybe even profitable. Sometimes we luck out but that’s true of playing the lottery also. But, once in awhile, we find a gem and that keeps us going. Publishers are treasure hunters.
ummm… well, here at the publishing company, we certainly have plenty of writers submitting works in which their brain was not used.
I’m sure you merely jesting, Ralph.
ummm.... you don’t know much about the publishing business, do you? about 95% of the stuff we and most publishers get is pure crap—no other way to describe this fools scrap of juvenile thoughts or slavish imitation of far better writers. Of the remaining 5% that LOOKS like the writer has at the very least TRIED to put it in a readable format, we look at in mostly vain hope of finding something a) publishable and b) maybe even profitable. Sometimes we luck out but that’s true of playing the lottery also. But, once in awhile, we find a gem and that keeps us going. Publishers are treasure hunters.
I did not mean that you jest about the numbers, ralph roberts. merely that you must be joking to compare bad writing to a state of enlightenment. Or something like that.
I did not mean that you jest about the numbers, ralph roberts. merely that you must be joking to compare bad writing to a state of enlightenment. Or something like that.
And TomH dresses his cat in tutus.
ah… now I see, as the enlightened visually impaired person said.
ah… now I see, as the enlightened visually impaired person said.
especially about the tutus.
I’m strictly a dog guy and she will brook no clothing. She’s a mountain dog, wants to feel free. If he’s enlightened I’m god or at least Jesus returned.
The spiritual teacher, Gangaji, will be visiting Asheville in September. Sat with this lady a couple of times out west. Very sweet and inspirational. See comments made by one of our locals by a man who claims to have had an awakening in her presence.
