Theos-Talk Archives (February 2011 Message tt00027)

We have seen in the West, some of the 'teachers' teach 'meditation' and
collect 'donations' and have done very well as a business. One should be
rather vigilant about it. Of course, one can Google and find a lot of
information on any topic.

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:47 PM, sadhak1008 <whyviswanath@-ctZrwVEoW_VAnqC8S3wy0SFNf0Ff6qRiAXfsfucZ21zA5uVvs2dcVKW2dSHlSrQpJKcybqQZIoHDONkVw.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>, MKR
> <mkr777@...> wrote:
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> > Have you looked at Ernest Wood's book on Concentration as a start?
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Joshua <joshuachad@...> wrote:
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> Why only this individual or that? Every great Advaita master including
> Ramana Maharshi has pointed to the pitfalls of meditation though it may have
> some use in the initial stage in curbing the loss of energy due to
> promiscuous thinking. One is encouraged soon to enquire 'who is the
> meditator?' rather than be stuck to some practice for a lifetime. It is here
> that one can see Krishnamuri's greatness in going directly to the central
> issue rather than dilly dally around. Unfortunately the many imposters and
> pseudo masters cannot accept their loss of importance that is inevitable
> when people start to directly address the issue. Hence their name calling of
> such teachings as pseudo advaita, not suitable for all and so on. We can
> only offer them our sympathies for their ingenious gimmicks at self
> preservation and move on.
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