Why(Mach) What(T): Good Vibration

[David Morris]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 6:47 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Respectfully, Ian, you are wrong.  There is no single goal with regards to
> “enlightenment,” a word with a multitude of definitions.  We could get into
> Tantrism, Zen, Dzochen, TCM, many  lineages of Buddhism, Shaivism, Sufism,
> Shamanism, etc, ad infinitum.  But we won’t.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 6:33 PM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Actually, the goal is to attain enlightenment, ultimately to escape the
>> cycle of rebirth.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Oct 15, 2021, at 11:30 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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>> Mach-T is onto(logy) something:
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> “Why what.
>>
>> The things that you do, the everyday things.  These are borne by, light.
>>
>> What guides your heart, your lungs, your kidneys.  You can call it
>> whatever you want.  Light.
>>
>> There is an electric universe, that exists as pulsations of varying
>> intensities.  Beyond that, consciousness.”
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> And I completely agree with him.
>> Everything is a manifestation of Light.
>>
>> But what is Light?  Some, like Mach, say that Consciousness is the source
>> of Light, the source of everything.  But many also feel another thing to
>> which Mach also alludes:  Pulsations. (“There is an electric universe,
>> that exists as pulsations of varying intensities.”). *Between* the
>> Source, Consciousness, and Light, the “stuff” of which everything is made,
>> is Spanda, Vibration.
>>
>> *Spanda (which means “small movement” in Sanskrit) is regarded by **Kashmir
>> Shivaism **as being the pulsing, radiating energy that comes from the
>> absolute or Supreme Consciousness (Brahman).*
>>
>> Or maybe light and vibration are the same thing.  Is light a particle or
>> a wave?
>>
>> Is Light a Wave or a Particle? - Ask a Spaceman!
>>
>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=EP_XbyvmGEA&feature=emb_logo
>>
>> Quantum Theory Made Easy [1]
>>
>> *Quantum Theory Made Easy,” a series in which the concepts of quantum
>> physics are broken down, more in-depth than most presentations for
>> laypersons, but without the mathematical rigour needed by a specialist in
>> the field.*
>> *So, you've heard that light is a wave/particle. Now you get to find out
>> how we know this!*
>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5_V78SWGF0
>>
>> And Mach’s grooving us all to The Who’s “Eminent Front (It’s a Put On)”
>> was a sly way of telling us again that “Everything is (really) Light.”  One
>> (scientific) way of seeing the world is to realize that everything we see
>> is a “front.”  Some call it all an “illusion.”  That’s just a word, and all
>> words fail in describing Quantum Reality.  The same can be said of Mystical
>> and Metaphysical realities.
>>
>> Just so you know (in case you didn’t), the *ultimate goal* of almost all
>> eastern religions is to become “enlightened.” That means to experience *first
>> hand* —not as a mental concept—  the true nature of reality.  Then,
>> after one gets a flash of that, however brief, one tries to get back to
>> that experience again and again, and to become “stabilized” in that
>> experience.  And if one can learn how to remain in that experience through
>> meditation, the next step is to “live” in that state, to walk around and
>> function in everyday life in that state.  Believe it or not, we have some
>> “normal” people like that who walk among us.
>>
>> Happy Friday to you all!
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:57 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> *Spanda* is a Sanskrit term – “to move a little” (kimcit calana).
>>>
>>>
>>> The term is a key concept of the Kashmir Śaivism monistic philosophy
>>> (ninth century), according to which the entire universe is nothing but
>>> conscious energy, and that everything in the universe is that consciousness
>>> expressed in different forms. Spanda can be translated as throb or
>>> pulse or vibration, referring to waves of activity issuing forth from an
>>> unseen source of spontaneous expression, emanating not only from the centre
>>> outward but from everywhere at once.
>>>
>>