an-atma, without self

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Date:  Posted 3 years before Oct 11, 2016

MiBeloved 3 years ago

Just after breath infusion and then in a short period within ten minutes, I got a transfer consciousness when I was going down to do the back of the body, just below the neck naad listening practice which was shown by Lahiri Baba.

At the time, suddenly I have a clear perception of seeing three Buddha deities who are installed in a temple in South Korea. Gautam Buddha was in a very pleasing mood, smiling. He said this:

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If it is a socialist government there can be no religious or spiritual cultivation. If it is a capitalist system, there can only be superficial religious or spiritual interest. Humanity loses either way.

Thank you for defending my person. My followers think that I am an-atma, without self. Their view is that now I am none-person.

Alfredo 3 years ago

If I am not mistaken, you are referring above to the Amitābha Buddha.

I think the deity is correct in thanking you, for what I have seen that you, often, in your writings and comments, bring back a dimension to the life of the Buddha that has been mostly lost to many. Mainly lost to those who insist in seeing the concept of the middle path as the culmination of his teaching, without acknowledging the austerities (Tapasya) conducted by the Buddha before arriving at the middle path, which was designed for the mortal, common man, which he was not.

As per the an-atma, allow me to quote the great British Vaishnava Saint Sri Krishnaprem (one of the founders of a beautiful ashram in Mirtola, near Almora, Uttarakhand, India) named "Uttar Vrindavan", when in a letter to his friend and famous poet and Sri Aurobindo's disciple Dilip Kumar Roy, touched upon this same subject, quoting from the letter: [What did Buddha mean by anatmani? What did the Vaishnavas mean by saying He is nikhila-rasamrita murti?The answer to this question must be sought in experience, not in mere dialectic. When the light of experience streams in and fills the empty concepts, then and then only does recognition flow in like a sea and we can know why the above words are used. Ascharyavat pashyati kashchidenam (as wonderful, some, few, see Him). Then we can know why the atma of the Upanishad means the same thing as the anatma of the Buddha and in a flash be free from the empty scholastic disputes that have filled the millennia.]