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Huxley also quotes people who are only philosophically similar to yogis and saints, without actually having experienced what they purport to describe, which bothers me
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so it turns out Huxley just doesnt know what hes talking about and describes two paths to yoga as fundamentally different, without realizing that each path yields both results (knowledge of God within and knowledge of God without). he seems deceived by one path leading to reincarnation and the other to nibanna (allegedly). what I see here is non-preference for pairs of opposites so that they merge into one nondual, or a form of yajna (sacrificing ones will to the divine will)/karma yoga (selfless service). this is yoga!!
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those who obtain atman-brahman realization like the kashmir shaivas call everything a play of consciousness. with mahayanas is everything not also a product of the mind? how is one better? isnt it evil to call what is within (the atman. duh) "void"? for it is both being and nonbeing and existence consciousness bliss, beyond knower and known? it feels like these people who describe what is within as a void or a lack of consciousness have obtained only a lesser state that they may call sunyata or what have you.... could Huxley be misunderstanding? the text describes a path beyond duality, is not yoga the very same? I should just keep reading!
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what is there more to know "without" than seeing God and yourself in all beings and all beings and God in yourself? is it rigpa? or some sort of experiential identification with energy which comprises prakriti as opposed to consciousness which is purusha? whatever the answer is. I know itll make me annoyed!
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georgia
georgia
I wonder what this could mean, it sounds like sahaja samadhi to me but I'm probably wrong. having put so much faith in atman-as-brahman realization myself as the wannabe unachievable goal of my life it IRRITATES me that he says theres something better??;isnt realizing the Brahman within what leads to knowledge of the immanent AND transcendent God? or is this about nibanna vs samsara, more mahayana stuff? I will enquire further....
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@lain my belief about mahayanas is kind of affected by my dislike for the dalai lama. he doesnt strike me as fully enlightened. spiritually evolved sure, he has demonstrated bodhichitta of some degree. but not enlightened. however a lot of tibetan Buddhism is pretty cool, like rainbow body.
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@technicallydifficult @lizzie @waypastfuture @sathariel one of the best things I ever ate was a milanesa beef torta with all sorts of ingenious fixings (devised by me). among the fixings were lime juice, elotes, and salsa along with the usual vegetables and such. @vriska partook in the sammy
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@technicallydifficult @lizzie @sathariel @waypastfuture I havent eaten beef in like four years though, that has been consistent
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@technicallydifficult @lizzie @waypastfuture @sathariel I also feel naughty af when I eat pork but I made like five or six vows not to. yet I recently partook in bushs baked bean 
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georgia
georgia
huxley's distinction between the heights (nibbana) and the fullness (not preferring nibbana nor samsara, and thus effectively choosing samsara but also youre wholly enlightened apparently? dubious) of realizing the "Ground" is nonsensical. when someone dies in nibbana or mahasamadhi they become Brahman. Brahman is the height and the fullness, it is the transcendent Godhead and everything in samsara--purusha and prakriti. Huxley calls something else "the heights and the fullness", which I have yet to read. I'm sure it will annoy!
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georgia
georgia
fucked up that quietism is talked about on wikipedia without mention of yoga.
imagine a hindu imprisoning another for lack of orthodoxy? suppressing an innocuous and even virtuous sect? unthinkable!
imagine a hindu imprisoning another for lack of orthodoxy? suppressing an innocuous and even virtuous sect? unthinkable!
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