Why(Mach) What(T): Good Vibration

[Joseph Tracy]

Seems like some texts/traditions have the Buddha being evasive on the topic of reincarnation. Am I wrong?  I wish a bodhisattva would come over to my house for a few days. I definitely could use some lightening up. I  think the ecstasy gets into people in different ways, meditation I have tried a lot, but don’t have the knack, it seems like something kicks in about one hour out of ten .  Guess I shoud just do what works best and not worry too much about doing it the right way.   

> On Oct 15, 2021, at 6:48 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>>> 
>>> 
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