Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00068)

L wrote: <<M, Haven't the faintest idea what
you are talking about. And, getting tired of
rereading old mail over and over again. So,
would appreciate getting a direct question
about any of the "issues" you might have
brought up in any of your posts -- so I can
give them a direct answer.>>

Seems we might define "direct" somewhat
differently in that where I seem to ... On
second thought, no point in offering more
confusing qualifiers, at least not until ...
^:-/ ... I seem to recall having offered some
comments already about "strings" in relation
to Theosophy, among other things, all of
which, to me, seemed "direct enough," in a
sense (mostly "in agreement in a sense" with
many of your wordings).

But, in case you're in the mood for some more
confusing qualifiers that might not have
enough "directness" in them to your liking:

I wonder if the nature of "atma-buddhi" might
be kind of dependent, like everything else in
this "ordinary reality," on the "exoteric
reality" of "karma/maya," by which I'm saying
(or "my karma might be saying," I'm
speculating) that all karmic notions (and
some "less karmic" notions, as well, maybe
...) about the nature of "atma-buddhi" might
be inherently mayavic and basically
impermanent in as much as they are karmic in
their exoteric ("essentially dualistic")
aspects ... And so if "karma" (where the
quotes refer to a basically interpretive, or
"karmic/mayavic" nature of that word) ... and
so if "karma" per whatever
"individualistic/collective"
interpretive/intermediary variation has
outlined or realized or made real whatever
model or world view ("in one's life"), then,
(obviously?), such appearances and worlds and
worldviews are really engaging one's present
attention in terms of reality in as much as
if one has no other recourse to anything
"higher"---which "higher" one might, (eg...),
Theosophically model in terms of such as
"atma-buddhi" and "Monad," not that such
modeling isn't relevant enough and real
enough in terms of one's reality or "only
available reality."

In other words, "as I currently tend to see
it," the Esoteric Tradition is all about
cultivating a meaningful or "meaningful
enough" "middle way" (or Theosophy, eg)
between what is "more" and "less" real/"real"
in the most apparently
p/Profoundest/r/Realest/t/Truest sense.

Speculatively,
Mauri