Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00066)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, leonmaurer@a... wrote:
> Well, since you didn't quote what I claimed to be a straw man -- 
which, in 
> fact, was such an "argument," since what you stated followed as an 
implied 
> refutation of what I previously said -- there's nothing more that I 
can say about 
> it. (Except, what I said afterward to point out that your 
comparing 
> mindfulness to awareness of my left ear was a complete non 
sequitur -- which I now see 
> as simply a clever ploy to bolster a weak position on the nature 
and meaning of 
> "mindfulness" -- as the Buddha used it, and as theosophists or 
occultists see 
> it.) 

If you take time to get a book in vipassana and note how it is 
trained you will see why your statements are not true. It appears 
the subject is not one the nature of which is intuitively obvious to 
someone who is not familiar with it.

It is simply a fact that the question: arre you aware of your left 
ear? is a question typical of the ones used to teach this. You ae=re 
only considered mindful if yo already were aware of it before I 
asked. Trust me on that one. Mindfulness is not about reading 
magazines and arguing on the Internet. It is about being in the here 
and now and being aware of your body. Anyway, the next step is to 
read about it, and then you will see what I am saying is true. Dpn't 
feel embarrassed. It is an out of the way sort of subject, not 
familiar to most people.