[MD] Mind-body practice

[Dwaipayan Lahiri]

On Dec 28, 2007, at 12:46 AM, Krimel wrote:

> dmb]
> "Some of the most honored philosophers in history have been mystics:
> Plotinus, Swedenborg, Loyola, Shankaracharya and many others. They  
> share a
> common belief that the fundamental nature of reality is outside  
> language:
> that language splits things up into parts while the true nature of  
> reality
> is undivided. Zen, which is a mystic religion, argues that the  
> illusion of
> dividedness can be overcome by meditation" (LILA, page 63).
>
> [Krimel]
> Seriously that list of "most honored philosophers" has to be a  
> joke. Third
> string bench warmers, does anyone here find it impressive?

I hope you know what you just said. I don't really know whether it is  
appropriate to club Adi Shankaracharya in the same group as Loyola  
and the others. Shankaracharya is definitely not a third-string  
benchwarmer by any definition of the word when it comes to Indic  
traditions and classical Indian Darshana. If you think he is, you  
don't know what you're talking about...