E-mail David Christopher Lane
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Author: David Christopher Lane Publisher: The NEURAL SURFER Publication date: March 1997
E-mail David Christopher Lane
directly at dlane@weber.ucsd.edu
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THE LOCKER ROOM OF JUNIOR HIGH MYSTICS: I am Enlightened Because I Say I Am Or I got Laid by a Celestial Nymph on my Way to Trikuti ---------------------------------- Lao Tzu says (or some guy we think is Lao Tzu but who is not--it happens to be a cool statement all the same): "Those who know, do not speak; Those who speak, do not know" Julian Johnson says: "Masters never boast of their mastership or of their spiritual powers or attainments. If any man claims to have attained the highest in spiritual development, that claim itself may be taken as conclusive proof that he has not attained so much." Or, from the common wisdom of junior high locker rooms: "Those who really get laid, shut up about it; those who don't get laid like to tell elaborate stories about it." ------------------------------------ Just as there does not appear to be a "flawless" lineage in the Guru World, there also does not appear to be a "perfect" method by which to adjudicate the inner attainment of a Mystic. Yet, I have noticed that if a guru does describe his or her inner attainments or experiences or enlightenment, there is a tendency to accept them as "proof" that he or she has actually attained such. Additionally, if a guru says he or she sees nothing, or hears nothing, or struggles in meditation, or is Not enlightened, there are those who see this as "evidence" that he or she has no inner access, no inner attainment, no spiritual realization. I don't know if positive or negative statements about mystical attainment (I saw a rainbow snowflake act as a Pauli electron with nine tinkling bells in the middle of a diamond courtyard where Ganesha danced to the pleasure of Jyoti or geez all I see is this real thick blackness and flashes of my own boredom) can be taken as literal certifications of anything. The amount of people claiming some mystical insight runs into the millions. We even have "two" Jesus' who appear regularly on the Howard Stern Show (see E! or listen to his morning radio show). So many claims and so many conflict with each other..... ---------------------- The more esoteric the domain, the more difficult questions and answers become. ----------------------- Why? ------------------------ Because if the majority do not have access to such rarefied realms, then it is nearly impossible for the would-be seeker to ask an intelligent question. And even if an answer were to be forthcoming by the Mystic, how pertinent can the reply possibly be? ------------------------- I wonder if Michael Jordan would go up to a four year old kid from Tibet (who, arguably, didn't know much about basketball) and tell him, "Yep, I am the greatest basketball player that ever lived." What would such a claim possibly Mean to the kid who has no reference point to properly gauge Jordan's talent? Or, would Michael just start with the rudiments of the game and let the ultimate judgement of his talent come of its own accord, especially in the case of a 4 year old Tibetan? ------------------------------- If I have access to the Third Plane in shabd yoga, what does my stating such have anything to do with my cat? Would my cat care for such claims? How would my cat begin to appraise such a mystical attainment? Well, forget the cat, substitute it with a normal guy off the street who has never had an NDE or an OBE or a Mystical Excursion. How would he/she properly adjucicate the inner state? ----------------------------------- Testimonies of inner experiences are Fancy Painted Cakes. They are like the stories of Locker Room Kids in Junior High bragging about their Sexual Conquests. The only problem is that there is an 11 year old who has yet to go through puberty. All the talk means Some-thing, but not the Same-Thing his older friends are talking about...... Morever, it remains just that: Talk. ---------------------------------------------------------- Now talking can get one motivated, just as painted cakes can get one hungry........................... But both have nothing to do with the actual Experience....... ----------------------------------------------------------- I wonder if the Deepest Insight is also accompanied by the Deepest Silence? --------------------------------- Tulsi Sahib once stated in a rather obscure poem that God was not that thing which was the Biggest or the most Powerful, but rather it was that which was the Most Delicate......................... In order to be ushered into that Delicate One's Court, Tulsi Sahib argued, one had to become so tiny, so little, so soft, so vulnerable. Otherwise, no entrance was allowed............................... God as the Infinitely Delicate? Even a whisper that one experienced IT meant quite clearly that he or she had not. As Mirdad states, "Speech is at Best an Honest LIE." ------------------------------------------ signed: I clearly don't know what I am talking about since I have broken every rule I just suggested.
