devotion vs. knowledge

[Ian Goddard]

At 08:35 AM 6/5/96 -0400, M & E Shearn wrote:

 >>my friend,
 >>cannot understand this "tapping" concept.

IAN: Neither can I, but it's like reflecting the sun in a mirror,
an analogy made in vedantic scripture. The mind somehow reflects,
captures or "taps" into the free I am. The problem with the analogy
is that the Self is not apart from the mirror/mind, the Self occupies
equally all space and time.


 > do you say enlightenment is a
 > physical/psycological experience?


IAN: There is what is. As the Self is all that is, the Self is
the only physical reality.


 > Is leon spinks going to be enlightened
 > from getting beaten so often?


IAN: He already is enlightened. Will "he" know this? I don't know.


 > can not recall this story from the youth of
 > venkataraman, and do not recall Sri Ramana ever refering to
 > this process.


IAN: Just looked for the book I read about this in, and I can't find it
or recall its name. D'oh! I've released so many of my books and even
many good ones. I clearly recall reading that as a young man Ramana
was into boxing, and after a serious blow was knocked out and woke
up seeing the light. He then left town and went to a temple and then
to mount Arunachala. One of the all too many books I still have gives
a different account as stated by Ramana himself! ?? I know that I read
what I read, but I cannot prove it now. Alas, Ramamna is not even Ramana.


  > do you say you are nobody and a mind or nobody and have a mind?


IAN: Both. The mind is nobody, nobody is the mind.
The Self, which is nobody, is all that is.


I am poetry: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/iam-free.html

Law of Identity: A is A, relative to not-A. A = {A, ~A}

Law of Nonidentity: If there is 100% A, there is 0% A. A = ~A

absolute reality: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/reality.html