Fwd: Why(Mach) What(T): Good Vibration

[David Morris]

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I agree with your last line.  And Buddha isn’t the only gig on the planet.
And there are a multitude of Buddhas.

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 11:14 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> 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:
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>> <IMG_0181.jpg>
> >>>
> >>> 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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