by cutsinger | Sep 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Your message began with a quotation from Sri Ramana Maharshi: “The guru helps you in the eradication of ignorance. The ego is a very powerful elephant and cannot be brought under control by anyone less than a lion, who is none other than the guru, whose very...
by cutsinger | Aug 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m the first to sympathize with anyone who is skeptical of academics, but you couldn’t be more mistaken if you think perennialism is an “academic phenomenon”. Let’s be clear: when you refer to the “ideological lenses” of...
by cutsinger | Aug 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
I wasn’t exaggerating when I expressed things as I did in class. The tradition, at least the monastic tradition, is uncompromisingly clear on this point: obedience is crucial, even in situations where it might seem as though one’s spiritual father is...
by cutsinger | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
How to “maintain balance” and “acquire peace”? I could simply quote myself quoting Schuon: “Metaphysical truth, a life of prayer, moral conformity, interiorizing beauty: this is the essential, and this is our message” (Advice to the...
by cutsinger | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m not nearly as familiar as you seem to be with the writings of Aurobindo. But did he not say that human beings constitute a “transitional species”? This, if so, is at least one good reason his teachings have been so strongly repudiated by those...
by cutsinger | Jun 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
I agree that “not even the addict is equally attached to all things”, but our attachments to the odd numbers can’t help but color our perception of the even numbers. I would certainly beware of supposing myself “safely able to...
Home