05-22-2011, 12:01 AM
i wished to comment but i had little value to what you had already said Lex....
If he did understand the no-self experience he was silent about it.
in position of 'no-mind'..words are futile, at best they are an action of Spirits will, defining an experience, which is then, not from the space of no-mind at all..ie there is nothing to say or contribute of any use to anyone...
On a similar note; Thomas Merton after years of being a monk and teaching about these kinds of things that St John did eventually became a hermit.
its an 'alone' business....funny this word hermit, should come up again today..its happened several times over the last few days.... being 'alone; for many years before coming here to this forum only last year. its being contemplated again, or whether it is just the recognition again of it being an 'alone; business...mmmm
At the very end of his life he got permission to visit India. While standing at the foot of a huge Buddhist statute he had this break through and he wrote briefly about what happened. A silent statue speaking to a man of silence. But before he could explain what it all meant and put it into context he died on that same trip, electrocuted when a fan fell on him in his room.
you got any more, on this experience of silence meeting silence Lex?
This is only available to those who have achieved “union”. They are the only ones who would recognize it and could withstand it.
the 'alone' business.....i like the dilemma/solution in your post Lex...thanksxx
If he did understand the no-self experience he was silent about it.
in position of 'no-mind'..words are futile, at best they are an action of Spirits will, defining an experience, which is then, not from the space of no-mind at all..ie there is nothing to say or contribute of any use to anyone...
On a similar note; Thomas Merton after years of being a monk and teaching about these kinds of things that St John did eventually became a hermit.
its an 'alone' business....funny this word hermit, should come up again today..its happened several times over the last few days.... being 'alone; for many years before coming here to this forum only last year. its being contemplated again, or whether it is just the recognition again of it being an 'alone; business...mmmm
At the very end of his life he got permission to visit India. While standing at the foot of a huge Buddhist statute he had this break through and he wrote briefly about what happened. A silent statue speaking to a man of silence. But before he could explain what it all meant and put it into context he died on that same trip, electrocuted when a fan fell on him in his room.
you got any more, on this experience of silence meeting silence Lex?
This is only available to those who have achieved “union”. They are the only ones who would recognize it and could withstand it.
the 'alone' business.....i like the dilemma/solution in your post Lex...thanksxx