PFKap this is Asheville you can’t walk two blocks without stumbling over a pile books on metaphysical world of myth and reality.  Guess you haven’t been downtown lately.  Downtown Book and News on Lexington is a good place to pick up used books on the subject.  The new arrival rack by the magazines is a good place to discover just about anything.

The most profound thing I learned by teaching college level Physics for 4 years, is that even science believes we are just beings of energy, and so is the entire world around us. There is no such thing as “solid matter” or even reality as most people think of it. We are no more than controlled, confined, organized energy. If Physicists are correct, it lends A LOT of credence to eastern philosophies.

Seeker - 24 December 2008 06:02 AM

PFKap this is Asheville you can’t walk two blocks without stumbling over a pile books on metaphysical world of myth and reality.  Guess you haven’t been downtown lately.  Downtown Book and News on Lexington is a good place to pick up used books on the subject.  The new arrival rack by the magazines is a good place to discover just about anything.

It was sarcasm, chief. :-) Tom is ever so sensitive about his political/spriitual beliefs, and oh-so ready to argue with someone making a joke (like bobaloo was).  Personaly, as a man practicing TM and Ascension for a good decade now, I found it humorous that another poster on here felt that they were sharing something unheard of in regards to mediation and chakras. As you say, this is asheville, talking about meditation will only receive surprise on topix, not at the MX forums, where all us filthy hippies know what he is talking about.

Thanks for telling me how to go downtown, though. Thats a great tip. What are these magickal “mag-a-zines” you speak of at this new place, Downtown books and News”? Never heard of it.

Sarcasm, right?

Somehow its easier to agree with this stuff when Yoda says “Luminous beings we are, not of this crude matter” instead of believing all those pesky Easterners who totally copied off him thousands of years ago. It’s easier to swallow for an agnostic that way.

How does the vinegar taste?  Oddly enough is a this is an important question in determining your philosophical bent when studying eastern philosophy.  It also defines the basic differences in the major eastern religions/philosophies.  We would not be ill advised to pay homage to some of the tenets set forth by these philosophies.  Modern day China is refocusing on Confucian Wisdom to guide the people through the prosperity of modernization and economic expansion. Hopefully it will help guide them through the economic downturn as well.

It’s funny how the tenets of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are in direct conflict with the modern concepts of personal gain and desire based consumption societies we find the world immersed in today. I find the Taoist’s concepts of by whom and how humanity should be governed to be a fascinating subject and of course, completely alien by today’s practices. I find it some what connected to Plato’s concept of the benevolent dictator or at least how to be qualified to become one.

Taste the vinegar.
http://www.dynamicbalancingtaichi.co.uk/Vinegar tasters.htm

Confucianism in China today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/23/AR2007072301859.html