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Date Posted: 10:43:51 08/19/06 Sat
Author: Mike Carris - 6 Aug 2006
Subject: Re: The Yogi's of Tibet
In reply to: dr - 6 Aug 2006 's message, "Re: The Yogi's of Tibet" on 10:42:48 08/19/06 Sat

dr,

Thats ok.

Rishis (mythic beings) were considered the "mind born sons of Brahma" and served their divine purpose regardless of their trials and tribulation, which even the avatars had.

Savikalpa Samadhi is seeing past the mind for even an instant. It is a common experience to many, many, if not most people on the planet. It is considered "with seed" because mind is still there in a subtle form and returns, it is not yet finished as in Nirvikalpa which is a seedless samadhi because no mind is left to separate awareness later on. Savikalpa Samadhi is usually shallow at first and deepens with practice. Is there anyone that has not felt a sense of oneness or unexplained happiness for some "clear space"-between intervals as there was oneness with no division? You see - it is framed in "time" (or mind) and termed "with seed". It is "oneness with seed". Exotic Yogic and Buddhist terms are very often descriptions of everyday happenings in life but often made to seem unreachable and un-understandble.

St. Francis was a Bhakti with Christ as his Isht Deva. He was perhaps a supreme Karma Yogi as well. Yoga is a term to denote something. Because it is from a different language does not mean it is something exotic or superior and found only somewhere else.

Maybe you can understand.

Mike

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