Thank you, John, for raising the question "What is our purpose and how do we accomplish it?" at OurOwnThoughts@yahoogroups.com (our working group for...
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anetro11@...
Sep 2, 2001 4:23 am
Dear Minciu, Marjorie, I printed out your quote. Important. Thanks, Annette...
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tiffnmee@...
Sep 3, 2001 9:24 pm
Natalie, It is interesting, isn't it! I'm just starting Chap 1, Sec 6. I had just found the site and had read the introduction when I passed it on to you ...
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John J. O'Brien, CRM,...
jobrien@...
Sep 4, 2001 3:43 pm
<snip> ... of ... Caroline, I am fascinated by our capacity as human beings to create interpretations of reality that are founded on what you have described as...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
ms@...
Sep 5, 2001 10:49 am
I've spent most of my energy on the needs of our lab. But our purpose is to serve others, not just ourselves! So I'm starting to think, how can we support...
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anetro11@...
Sep 7, 2001 10:57 pm
Hi, One aspect of intelligent thinking is that it knows no class, isn't lower or middle or upper class, yet serves to benefit all at the same time with a...
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tiffnmee@...
Sep 8, 2001 4:45 am
John, I beg to differ with you. The tension between "us" and "them" is as real as the fact that polarities of like charge repel each other. These are very ...
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aearle1066@...
Sep 8, 2001 2:48 pm
Caroline and John write: <<what is "real" is a function of our perception. ... people continue to think that "reality" exists outside themselves. .... it is...
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Ernesto Garcia
garcia@...
Sep 8, 2001 6:03 pm
Join the discussion! ... tree ... we) ... Think of it this way: You're not aware of the tree's existance until someone else comes and tells you about it (or...
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tiffnmee@...
Sep 8, 2001 6:45 pm
Thanks, Alixe--good point! So, let's further define "the huge significance of subjectivity." You're right, reality is the wrong term. Reality refers to...
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tiffnmee@...
Sep 8, 2001 7:14 pm
E.G., I am of the firm conviction that reality is ultimately all of one stuff, held within the confines of time and space. Nothing exists in a vacuum; that...
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Ernesto Garcia
garcia@...
Sep 8, 2001 9:27 pm
Caroline: [Skip next 4 paragraphs if you don't feel like discussing semantics :-) ] What do you think is more correct: a) Reality encompasses ALL we know. b)...
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tiffnmee@...
Sep 9, 2001 12:01 am
E.G., I'm sorry, but I don't understand your thought. Would you please elaborate on 1. and 2. at the end of your letter. (We're not speaking the same ...
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Ernesto Garcia
garcia@...
Sep 9, 2001 12:36 am
[Oh I love this Saturdays off at home! :-) ] ... Yes Caroline, I'll try to explain myself a little better. First, I agreed with you on the point that you can ...
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tiffnmee@...
Sep 9, 2001 1:59 am
Yes, Saturdays! Got some beer and a seat at the computer! Hopefully, I don't contemplate my navel but do some actual penetration! Doesn't all life, from the...
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anetro11@...
Sep 9, 2001 2:01 am
Hi, Well, if you want to be fooled all the time, just rely on objective reality. We (the conscious) cannot know the subconscious but the subconscious knows...
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Marjorie Rosenfeld
marjorierosenfeld@...
Sep 9, 2001 5:21 am
Caroline, if "what is real is a function of our perception," as you wrote on September 7, 2001, then how can it be that "feeling good at the expense of others...
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Marjorie Rosenfeld
marjorierosenfeld@...
Sep 9, 2001 7:09 am
Annette, you seem, in what you've written, to be equating objective reality with conscious perception. But isn't objective reality that which we believe to...
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anetro11@...
Sep 10, 2001 12:09 am
Hi, No, I believe in objective reality although you put it so well. I believe that the tree exists even when no one hears or sees it since the tree is aware...
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tiffnmee@...
Sep 10, 2001 5:48 am
Annette, You shared an interesting concept, which needs to be explored further. You had said, "We (the conscious) cannot know the subconscious but the ...
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anetro11@...
Sep 10, 2001 6:09 am
Hi, We can study the subconscious but we can't know it, that is we can't be sure of how we feel because the conscious mind keeps questioning and correcting....
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tiffnmee@...
Sep 10, 2001 6:29 am
I hear you, and appreciate your sensibilities. I, also, am looking at the big picture. I realize that you don't have the answers to my questions, though, but...
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Saulius Maskeliunas
mask@...
Sep 10, 2001 10:26 am
Hello, ... Emptying the mind (as if preparing inner Silence) - that reminds me the journal "Indra" [issued by Society of Lithuanian-Indian friendship; in...
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anetro11@...
Sep 10, 2001 3:36 pm
Hi, Thanks for understanding. No, I don't have your answers. This is an idea I picked out of a documentary on science and art and it appealed to me and I...
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anetro11@...
Sep 10, 2001 3:55 pm
Hi, Thanks for filling in some of my empty spots. I realize meditation is the link, yet I didn't realize that it's a powerful almost universal link that...
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tiffnmee@...
Sep 10, 2001 8:33 pm
Thanks, Saulius. And that reminds me, I would be very interested to receive Prof. Suhrit Dey's paper "Mathematical Analysis of Consciousness in Vedanta ...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
ms@...
Sep 11, 2001 10:20 am
Hi, Here in Lithuania we've been meeting every Tuesday evening. That's been very good for building a team. We'd like to try to do the same in English through...
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Saulius Maskeliunas
mask@...
Sep 11, 2001 11:06 am
Hello, ... OK, I'm sending it you in separate letter. ... Nice to hear that you like it ! But I would like to add: in my opinion, there are lot of...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
ms@...
Sep 11, 2001 8:33 pm
Even here in Lithuania we heard right away about the awful and difficult to imagine attack on the United States. It's taking some time to absorb it, to...
