Thursday, April 15, 2010

Leapers Scope Reviews

Peace in daily life according to Ramesh

You do not need many words to introduce a master like Ramesh Balsekar, already known and loved by Italian readers. His grace and compassion, combined with a fine intellect, have enabled thousands of researchers and Eastern Europe, but mainly in the West, to approach the ancient tradition of Advaita.
"Peace and harmony in daily life" is perhaps one of the most interesting books ever to capture this message in its size as it "more practical" and more intriguing to those who have even heard from other teachers and masters the concept that There is no one in the shape if not consciousness, but has not yet been able to integrate into their daily lives. The great sage of Mumbai, which for years she received in her salon researchers from around the world, seems almost to anticipate the questions that the reader might ask about the message of non-duality and respond to any possible objection with unassailable clarity and delicious irony.

That said, it is worth spending just a few words to clarify some points that readers may find interesting to compare the message with Ramesh that of other contemporary masters. Ramesh repeatedly mentions the existence of an ego in the paper (the one who understood deeply and completely the absence of an individual in the body-mind) in that he still responds to his name when called, citing also about Ramana Maharshi who turned around when someone called him by name. Ramesh points out that the wise man knows that he who apparently is calling and who apparently answers are actually a single consciousness, but he wants to emphasize that it is not identified, let's say "functional" with the body-mind the reason for human suffering, but the concept of being responsible for the actions with all that that entails. It is interesting that a distinction can perhaps allay the doubts of those who can see in the impersonality of the message of Advaita the risk of a sort of apathy towards life or even the danger of no longer functioning on a social level. In Indeed, the ego is already only a concept, as Ramesh repeats, and then everything fades in understanding is an idea that brings suffering. You have to act and only the consciousness through form, through what he calls the "programming" of the body-mind, or social conditioning combined with the genetic characteristics of form. It is always and only God's will to act: a God who is not anthropomorphized entity, but our true self that moves from a global mind, no longer divided by the concept of separation.

Another interesting argument put by Ramesh about the fact that the reason for suffering is just an idea is his peculiar distinction between "duality" and "dualism". The first is the root of existence itself, the engine of life itself: the event is inserted on a principle of positive and negative, male and female, of opposing polarity that complement and cancel each other out. The "dualism" is instead identification with only a part of this polarity, with all the pain that this bias results: by choosing a "good" against "evil" without grasping the absolute perfection in the overall scheme of the event. Obviously it's just the duality that must be overcome through understanding, whereas the duality is understood and accepted by the wise as an intrinsic part of the phenomenal nature itself. This acceptance is the foundation of peace and harmony for wise home.

Finally, it is worth to mention an appearance perhaps not widely cited by other contemporary masters in Ramesh talks towards the end of the book. Through the words of the wise Mukundaraj, Ramesh talks about the dissolution of objective reality as the final result of the understanding of our true self. Citing the various stages of consciousness - waking, dreaming, deep sleep and observation of these states (Turiya) - Ramesh tells us that even this last state, the observer, is not our final place of rest. What we are is completely beyond the subject-object relationship, even if the object is so thin as may be the deep sleep, which is somehow "registered" and "recalled" at the time of the awakening of consciousness. Our true nature, says Ramesh, is beyond the pure subjectivity, is the vacuum itself, which coincides with the Absolute Reality.

Shakti Caterina Maggi

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Will Orajel Numb Your Penis

The Exhibition Toptoys become famous!

We have reached the Channel 5 news. They aired a lengthy article on our trade show Sunday, March 28 (the day of show) of the 20.00 edition. Beautiful!
And we also have many photographs taken by Charles Mastrantonio. In short, it's all documented this time.
For photographs click here . The video I add it as soon as I do.
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