... Dear Barbara, I attended the convention this year at the Great Space Center, as I have several times in past years as well. It is a beautiful, remote,...
I found this lecture very eye- and heart-opening so I wanted to share it with you all. I could not find it anywhere on the Web so I've sent it along here in...
Hello friends, Hello friends, In chapter 2 of "The Philosophy of Consciousness Without An Argument," on pages 261-262 of the SUNY reprint (Experience and...
Hello friends, In chapter 12 of Pathways To Space, Merrell-Wolff mentions very briefly a "certain Sage in Southern India" whose words he read with "profound...
I share your question. I have struggled for a while trying to really understand Wolff's "method." As to the question of whether or not the approach is purely...
As I understand Wolff's position, where the relative consciousness "sees" substance or substantiality (that is, what we unawakened ones call ponderable matter...
Hi Brandon, It's great to hear from you . We seem to be looking at things in pretty much the same way. Nice to know! ... I think it must be, because...
I will post the passage after lunch - I work/live at a boarding school, and will swing by my apartment to get the book. The passage you cite is a huge one. It...
... From: Rob Sacks To: Merrell-Wolff@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 8:06 PM Subject: [Merrell-Wolff] Substantiality inverse to ponderability ...
Dear Brandon, I think you described this very well. My understanding is the same as yours on this point. What I don't understand is the train of thought that...
Here's the passage from "Transformations in Consciousness" to which I alluded earlier: The problem of method, whereby the latent introceptive function may be ...
... The task to be accomplished, for intellectuals like us, is to move the matter that we are knowing from intellectual knowledge to realized knowledge. We...
Hi Brandon, Thanks for typing the passage about the impossibility of describing the method exactly. Well, that answers that -- the missing details aren't an...
That we are ultimately on our own beyond a certain point is the conclusion toward which everything has been pointing, so I'm not surprised, but, lazy person...
Bword, "Perhaps my question reduces, then, to this: Is it possible to explain how one moves the matter we are knowing from intellectual knowledge to realized...
Dear Steve: Thank you for your last two posts; I enjoyed reading them tremendously. They are very inspiring. To verbalize some of my thoughts along with...
At Steve Beckow's suggestion, I'm offering this post on the topic of Wolff's aphorism "Substantiality is inversely proportional to ponderability." Below is an...
Hi, Tom, I thought I'd have a chance to jot something down earlier for the group, inspired by what you wrote, but I simply can't find the time. I enjoyed your...
"The bird has its nest, and the dog has its den, but the son of man has no place to rest." Hello my name is Jeff Brooks and I am relatively new to your list....
Everything in Nothingness When you have become everything what is that fragment of a moment we call a lifetime? The dust of my bones blanket the planet from...
Ecstasy and Addiction in Buddhism I have had many people say that I might have become addicted to ecstasy. I have been saying, no, all along because ecstasy...
Tibetan Nun's Path To Asylum leads to jail "But when she arrived at Dulles International Airport and requested asylum, federal immigration officials detained...
Dear fellow Sadhu's I am greatly pleased to finally have this page ready and here i humbly offer it. It contains a complete expose of the process of the...
The Secret of Renunciation Much has been written by many people from many different and divergent Faiths and Sects about this most difficult of subjects. ...
Thank you. I enjoyed that very much " . . . the Sufis say 'Renounce the world and then renounce yourself and then renounce renunciation out of love.' - Pir...
Should the Sadhu then refuse Mythos which is his very own existence, or should he choose now the death to which he goes step-by-step? If he chooses to reject...
Hello, my name is Jeff Brooks. I live in the USA and I have been a lay follower of the Buddha for 30 years. In the duration of these three decades I have ...
Hari Om Fellow Sadhus.... Please bare with me regarding this post it will surely be rewaring. I have sort to address each concept of the subject line...
For those members of this list who may be interested, below is a link to an essay entitled "The Heart of Franklin Merrell-Wolff's Philosophy." It is based on...
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