To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/11/15 07:41
Subject: Re: Humility (was Re: [K-list] Shaktipat?
From: Jenell
On 1999/11/15 07:41, Jenell posted thus to the K-list:
Hey, we do live in an era of fast foods and quick fixes and instant
everything. Doesn't this teach us that we needn't bother with those old,
lengthy methods, just go down a check list, and be done with it? A
simplistic way of thinking for most people, looking for simplistic
instructions, simplistic asnwers to roblems, etc? So that then, when
they don't acheive desired results, they can moan as they give up what
they never really wanted to put any serious effort into in the first
place, 'but I've tried EVERYTHING?'
Jenell
Ville Vainio wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Adele Chatelain wrote:
>
> > Oh, I didn't think you were putting the Lists down! But
> > I'd love to read that stuff about 'this chakra correspnds to
> > this..." etc. Sounds like fun, actually.
>
> Well, that chakra thing was more like the stuff in hindu/tantric
> tradition, I gave it as an example. I guess you can see that stuff in
> many new-age books and several trendy women's magazines. However, many of
> the old buddhist texts ARE composed into a form that could be represented
> in tables and lists. Even the usual "core" of Theravada-buddhism is a list
> (Right thinking, right action, right meditation, etc.). Mahayana, and to
> greater extent Zen buddhism make an exception.
>
> But, I'm a poor student, so I can't afford any books that are not
> available in the library or the net. So my knowledge of traditions is
> rather vague.
>
> Ville Vainio - vvainioATnospamtp.spt.fi http://www.tp.spt.fi/~vvainio
> We're all puppets
> The first step on the path to understanding is seeing the strings
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