Theos-Talk Archives (June 2001 Message tt00096)

> Dallas wrote:
> Description understood. Midpoint if and when selected is
> actually selected by WHAT in us ?

>From my experience, the consciously willed motion to turn towards the 'Self'
was made by personally, in response to and with undeniable prompts from the
inside.

> Ascent or decent understood. WHO or WHAT directs and guides ?

As a meditation technique, it is the personality willingly responding to the
"Self," as in answering an inner call.

> But PARANIRVANA is what essentially if non-material? How can it
> be described except in terms of negatives.

Negatives or paradoxes are the best that manas can do from its vantage point.

> It is true one might claim to have been there and returned. But
> then, Buddha-like qualities would be evident, would they not ?

The individual who attains paranirvana, does not return during the rest of the
manvantara. At least, that's what the Buddhists say.

> Then this waiting will be eternal as every last MONAD would have
> to reach their level. And, as I understand it there is a
> continuous stream of incoming MONADS from the "Monadic essence"

That's not my understanding, at least not for this Solar System, which is, in
the end, a limited field.

-- M