New member introduction (fwd)

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Ravisankar S. Mayavaram wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 10:51:50 -0400
> From: Jonathan Bricklin <brickmar at earthcom.net>
> To: Ravi <aum at unix.tamu.edu>
> Subject: Introduction
>
> Hello, and thank you for this service.  I am trained in Western philosophy
> and classical Greek.  My interest in advaitism, however, is most directly
> related to my experience with Vipassana meditation.

I doubt very much that Vipassana, a practice of Theravada Buddhism has
anything to do with Advaita Vedanta.  Particularly if you think it has to
do with the non-reality of free will.

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