Theos-Talk Archives (February 2012 Message tt00101)

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Look for the big picture, what point is the details of history and archaeology of those long gone. 
  
Live each day as if it was your last and first combined.  

Invest for the winter of course but live for today.  


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--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "plcoles1" <plcoles1@...> wrote:
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> Hi Everyone, well it's been a while since posting here,I hope you are all doing well!
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> My reason for posting is that I have been doing a lot of head scratching over the following issue and would be interested to hear other theosophists opinions.
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> It is regarding the relationship between the Universal Wisdom Religion (Theosophy) taught in theosophical writings and Exoteric Buddhism and the Mahatmas relationship to Buddhism.
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> I realise David Reigle has written about this subject and I am slowly going through his book "Blavatsky's Secret Books" at the moment, trying to piece things together with my very limited brain and knowledge.
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> The Mahatmas claim to be Buddhist and yet they speak of Atma or Monad as fundamental in their teachings and yet these are anathema to Buddhism.
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> My question is to what extent can they claim to be truly Buddhists of the Yellow Cap or Gelukpa order and yet teach the doctrine of Atma and Svabhava, obviously there would have been a serious conflict here for them being members of that order while at the same time holding to the doctrines  of Svabavah and Atma, also the teachings on after death states and reincarnation are quite different i.e. rebirth into literal hells for long,long periods and rebirth into insect and animal forms.
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> Also while it is mentioned in the writings of HPB that there are chelas from different schools of philosophy under these same teachers i.e KH and M , is there any mention of Adepts who are not Buddhist ?
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> I am interested to hear what other students may think on this point.
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> Cheers,
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> Perry
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