Theos-Talk Archives (April 2003 Message tt00161)

Hi Mauri,

Very well said.

I intended to ask you several particular questions about the possible source
of the "inherent, basic, creative freedom of thought" that you may have
experienced, but I became intuitively aware that I would only be stacking my
thoughts along with yours in a futile effort to build Jacob's ladder.

regards,
Bill


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From: "Mauri" <mhart@idirect.ca>
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Subject: Theos-World just some thoughts about g/Gods, religion, Theosophy,
Zen, Buddhism, Leon's ABC's, etc


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> Seems to me that life, karma and maya on this plane
> are intertwined, (or made the same, in a sense), with
the result that, what seems like "reality" is, at the same
> time, in a sense, a realistic story that's sustained by
> karma, or sustained by the various preceding
> (collective/individualistic) stories or karmic effects. I
> tend to believe that when we dream we're exercising a
kind of inherent, basic, creative freedom of thought re
> some chosen elements of our stories, (ie, whether or
> not our "waking selves" will consider having
> knowingly chosen those elements), so that we might
> deal with, or think about and asses topics that are, or
> might be in the background or relevant background of
> our story, or reality.
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> As I tend to see it, the Esoteric Tradition is all about
> exercising our inherent, basic freedom (a "freedom"
> that's apparently layered with karma/maya, in some
> "higher sense"?) in order to transcend the various
> realities of our various karmic/mayavic stories.
Transcend where? I suspect that that "where" is not
> relevant in the sense that any "exoteric" explanation
> about that, no matter from whom, no matter how
> worded, tends to unavoidably become so much more
> story telling, or karma/maya, though "reading between
> the lines" of such exoterics may be helpful, or might
> be seen to have a "bridging effect toward esoterics."
> Apparently that creative "reading between the lines"
> of life has led to karmic/mayavic reality-stories (or
> "reality" stories?) about g/Gods, religions, Theosophy,
> Zen, Buddhism, Leon's ABC's, etc? Not that such
stories can not be helpful, but/"but"... ?
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> Speculatively,
> Mauri
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