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Stu wrote:
> On 2006-10-12 05:05:55 -0700, norbu_tragri@yahoo.com said:
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OK now I got a Problem,
that is an American Word.
And Relates to an Egyptian Teaching.
Maia was Ackhnotin and Neffertti's Wet Nurse.
Story of Abraham and Sarah!
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> There are some serious differences
Genocide is easier that way.
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> Thank you for that Norbu.
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> This idea of humans being intrinsically good a huge difference between
> Eastern and Western religious discourse. A concept such as the
> forbidden fruit is foreign to Vedic practices that tend to emphasize
> the positive even when faced with great violence as we read of Arjuna
> in the BG.
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> In the same way, xtian mystics developed self mortification as a way to
> become closer to god. For them the body represented a sinful animal
> part of the self. The body is a place of hunger, sexual yearnings,
> predator instincts, and so on, all labeled as sins. For the xtian the
> body is to be shamed. Hence, Adam and Eve and their desire to cover
> themselves after eating the fruit.
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> Buddha tried the path of mortification for 6 years before he realized
> its disadvantage. Asana practice survives to this day as way to honor
> the spiritual potentiality of the cells of the body.
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> By disavowing this primal concept of the body as sin, and man as
> intrinsically evil, we are left with a philosophy couched in humanity,
> gentleness, and finding harmony with nature as nature.
> --
> ~Stu
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