Comments on: To Live in the Great Way

By: prem martyn

prem martyn — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:26:01 +0000

Christian children’s playgroup influenced by Japanese Buddhist ideas, shock.

http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_life_of_jesus/the_last_supper/mt26_20.jpg

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:02:34 +0000

I trust, like a number of other good judges here, you also discern his intense, ‘rajasic’ spirituality though, Lokesh? He’s a breath of authentic (though volatile and at times rather windy) Indian fresh air here – for the discriminating ones – is he not?

By: lokesh

lokesh — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:54:55 +0000

Good, relevant post, Frank.

By: lokesh

lokesh — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:53:39 +0000

Yogi is very funny at times. Once in a while he sounds like he is struggling to keep it fresh, but all in all I find his comments good for a laugh.

By: shantam prem

shantam prem — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:17:00 +0000

Frank, my dear brother,
While reading your post I felt like sharing my research. You guys can throw stones on me for this but I must share. The most Zen-like porn comes from Japan. Women depict more feelings than all the Angelina Jolies and Jennifer Anistons combined together – and that too in mainstream cinema!

Feelings and West: almost like potato milk shake…Does not mix quite well.
And to be true to my own land, world´s worst porn as well as mainstream cinema comes from India.

Indians are good in writing about love and meditation.

By: Arpana

Arpana — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:09:42 +0000

Frank.
am incredibly impressed at the degree of self restraint you have shown here.
Indeed I feel privileged to have been at the unveiling of this hitherto unrevealed facet of your good self.
(Can feel the energies vibrating through the akashaic ether. )

By: frank

frank — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:58:29 +0000

Shantam, I don`t know if all the Traditional Zen masters have, by now, been “sucked off”, as you put it.
I would be interested to get the low-down on that.

As one of the “zen experts on SN” I will have to give you a quick Zen lesson:

Traditional Zen was about a bunch of guys with shaved heads holed up in monasteries in the mountains in a hugely militaristic medieval country, staring at walls, eating too much porridge, asking each other ridiculous and absurd questions, then when they got the answers wrong, slashing, thumping, beating the hell out of each other.

It was all very organised and the “masters” did the beating and the young `uns got the beatings.

Cats were cut in half and kids` fingers sliced clean off to prove gibberish-based philosophical points.

It was all misogynistic, too. One nun was so good-looking that she had to slash her own face off. Disciples were hurled from upstairs windows and one disciple was beaten to death for simply glancing at a woman.

What they all did for for sexual relief is, unsurprisingly, not recorded.

On the other hand, Beat-Zen was a bunch of beatniks driving round the States in beat-up cars, high on Dexedrine, booze and dope, reading whacked-out Japanese and Chinese poetry, shagging their brains out, living it large and partying hard.

Osho Zen: Leaning towards the beat, but traces of the trad.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:18:10 +0000

It’s good to know, amongst all the arguments and back-biting between people at various stages of their spiritual odyssey, that there’s at least someone posting here who elicits almost universal respect.

As I’ve previously noted, Anand Yogi is clearly in his outspoken, fiery, ‘rajasic’ phase of realisation, and the likes of Kavita, Madhu, Shantam, I myself and, in the quite recent past, others here, sense where he’s coming from.

Futile it is indeed to cross swords with this brand of spiritual authority. And it’s reassuring that, despite certain appearances, SN attracts discriminating ‘seekers’ well able to see the wood for the trees when it’s put before them.

By: lokesh

lokesh — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:56:28 +0000

That is all very well, Madhu, but you are not addressing the questions that arose because of your statement, “Souls in bodies, bodies in Souls.” If you are not interested in anyone understanding what you are talking about, that is your business. If the opposite is the case, why not simply answer, for instance, “What exactly is a soul?”

By coming away with the likes of “Your otherwise then added ´lecture´ is familiar to me” is a cop-out, likewise referring to Poonjaji etc. In other words, convenient pigeonholing that seemingly allows you to avoid the questions.

I did not give a lecture. I posed some questions, none of which you answered. Instead, you come away with bunk like, “That can not be measured or not measured. Is simply to be felt.” Vague at best. Playing the abstraction game, i.e. those who come away with the greatest religious abstraction have the highest religion.

If you wish to play it like that, why not answer the following?
Is this feeling of yours an amplified emotion?
Is it physiological?
Seeing as how it has been observed, who or what is it that does the observing?
Just because something is felt, does that give it extra value and make it more important than other things, like thoughts etc?

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:34:32 +0000

Ever crossed your blinkered mind, Swami Propaghanda, that what you think is true for you might not be true for very many others – or even not true at all?