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Recieved: 2000/09/24 09:36
Subject: [K-list] Re: We Need Some Help And Inspiration
From: Bob Vincent

 lightbuilder51ATnospamh... wrote:

> > I also find the eastern terminology and ownership of knowledge to
be a little bit antiquated but most feel "if it ain't broken don't
fix it". It's all the same thing. A rose is a rose is a rose. It's
time to collectively take it all and make it understandable to those
who are just learning and need an immediate explanation. I personally
like plain ole English and need to speak to people who are not as
educated. You have to talk the talk so to speak, and modern
terminology appeals to most Americans. Unless you are familiar with
the eastern terminology you can get lost. Maybe a good project would
be to take the old terms and revise them. Like the new translation
of the Bible. Easy to read, same meanings.

Hi,

I agree, even though I am one of those immersed in eastern methods
and descriptions. I try and keep my notes here in english as much as
possible. The thing is, language follows experience, and that is how
all the terminlogy develops. There is also the esoteric aspect of the
vibrations of sanskrit words actually being the seed form of the
objects and states they describe.

But all of that aside, it is our task in this place and time to
rediscover the landscape of spiritual experience and relate to it in
our own way. If some of that terminolgy ends up being sanscrit
because we don't have an english equilivant, or whatever, then that's
ok I think. We've got to call it something, right?

It is like the eskimos and snow. They have many words for it. We have
only af few. If we live in snow for a while, we need more words to
describe it. I think growing in spirit is like that. But it is not
reasonable to expect people to know all the words before they have
experienced the thing itself.

Should it be a requirement that anyone who goes to California must
first memorize the name of every city, town and hamlet before they
are allowed to go there? Of coure not. Knowing that there are a few
places there that attract us is enough to get us in. Once we get
there, then the details will begin to fill in naturally because we
will directly observe them.

Bottom line: Experience determines terminology, not the other way
around. But there is bootstrapping between the two, because we all
need a vision of our possibilities. The world would be a confusing
place without any maps. What you are suggesting is that we need maps
that anyone who is on the journey can read. I agree! Perhaps that is
one of the things that this forum is about.

Peace,
Bob

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