Comments on: The Advaita Show #42 - with Gavin from Newcastle, UK http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/ The search for Truth and the nature of reality. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:06:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Wyatt http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-118369 Wyatt Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:21:15 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-118369 RE: Inspired me to check out Tolle again after Tony parsons dissed him as a deluded dualist….what does he know anyway? Tolle is a major competitor to Parsons in the Advaita marketplace. Advaita is still a niche in the overall existential marketplace and therefore market share is crucial. Adviata is still a long way from being able to compete with major corporations such as Catholicism and Scientology. As its share grows and competition heats up, so will the Advaitan Tower of Babel. RE: Inspired me to check out Tolle again after Tony parsons dissed him as a deluded dualist….what does he know anyway?

Tolle is a major competitor to Parsons in the Advaita marketplace. Advaita is still a niche in the overall existential marketplace and therefore market share is crucial. Adviata is still a long way from being able to compete with major corporations such as Catholicism and Scientology. As its share grows and competition heats up, so will the Advaitan Tower of Babel.

]]> By: matt http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-117841 matt Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:31:12 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-117841 Cheers gav. Sitting here at this godearly hour with tea and stale biscuits, a horrid cold and an immense boil on the back of my neck is IT right now. I close my eyes and a great black, emptiness appears and knows itself as nothing ...and knows absolutely nothing. Cheers gav.
Sitting here at this godearly hour with tea and stale biscuits, a horrid cold and an immense boil on the back of my neck is IT right now.
I close my eyes and a great black, emptiness appears and knows itself as nothing …and knows absolutely nothing.

]]> By: GavT23 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-117548 GavT23 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:33:46 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-117548 Hey Matt, I'm glad it inspired you mate! I remember going round with the latest book that had some meaning for me thinking, "This is it!", then I'd pick another one up at a later date and go round saying, "No, THIS is it!". Then I'd come across a message that would 'poo~poo' the previous messages and I would be like, "No, no, really...THIS is it!" Eventually, like I said in the chat with Cameron, exhaustion set in and I just found what was never ever anywhere else and everything was IT and IT was everything y'know. If you join many IT's together it can read like an endless stream of TIT's running around in a circle trying to find the 'IT'. Personally, I'd much rather put my feet up with a nice cup 'o' tea and a cigarette whilst watching the scenery go on by. Sometimes that scenery includes 'Gavin' and other times it's sticky toffee pudding and if the stickyness 'disses' the pudding or the toffee 'disses' the sticky then who really cares! Eat it all up as if it were ONE anyway! lol FULL STOP! Hey Matt,

I’m glad it inspired you mate!

I remember going round with the latest book that had some meaning for me thinking, “This is it!”, then I’d pick another one up at a later date and go round saying, “No, THIS is it!”. Then I’d come across a message that would ‘poo~poo’ the previous messages and I would be like, “No, no, really…THIS is it!”

Eventually, like I said in the chat with Cameron, exhaustion set in and I just found what was never ever anywhere else and everything was IT and IT was everything y’know.

If you join many IT’s together it can read like an endless stream of TIT’s running around in a circle trying to find the ‘IT’. Personally, I’d much rather put my feet up with a nice cup ‘o’ tea and a cigarette whilst watching the scenery go on by.

Sometimes that scenery includes ‘Gavin’ and other times it’s sticky toffee pudding and if the stickyness ‘disses’ the pudding or the toffee ‘disses’ the sticky then who really cares!

Eat it all up as if it were ONE anyway! lol

FULL STOP!

]]> By: Mark http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-117244 Mark Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:28:05 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-117244 Good show guys. Gavin - I enjoyed hearing you. Good show guys. Gavin - I enjoyed hearing you.

]]> By: Blimey'o'shit'e http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-116703 Blimey'o'shit'e Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:49:23 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-116703 Dudes...Fascinating show, This presented soon after, appears appropriate to the discussion. (Part 4 of a 4 part series) Alan Watts: Limits of Language #4 Sunday, December 2, 2007 Limits of Language 4 of 4 Goto... http://www.alanwattspodcast.com/ Enjoy. Dudes…Fascinating show,

This presented soon after, appears appropriate to the discussion. (Part 4 of a 4 part series)

Alan Watts:
Limits of Language #4
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Limits of Language 4 of 4

Goto…

http://www.alanwattspodcast.com/

Enjoy.

]]> By: daniel http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-116609 daniel Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:19:52 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-116609 If you click on Awareness is Reality you get Itunes , does this mean something? $$$$ Life is bliss for who? The disembodied awareness? If you click on Awareness is Reality you get Itunes , does this mean something? $$$$
Life is bliss for who? The disembodied awareness?

]]> By: matt http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-116121 matt Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:43:57 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-116121 Great show chaps....still I suffer suffer suffer though....I guess I love my pain really. Inspired me to check out Tolle again after Tony parsons dissed him as a deluded dualist....what does he know anyway? Great show chaps….still I suffer suffer suffer though….I guess I love my pain really.
Inspired me to check out Tolle again after Tony parsons dissed him as a deluded dualist….what does he know anyway?

]]> By: patrick http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-115145 patrick Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:27:32 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-115145 good to hear this stuff is happening a lot more now (like, when else, eh?). just swerved into your realm this evening and thought i'd say "oi, mate!" your guest, gavin, prompted me to relate a similar story. was listening to eckhart some 3.5 years ago in seattle - without any searching/wanting/needing/expectations. in fact, i had no idea who he was. just that a close friend recommended him. she must've seen the hell i was living in. anyways, experienced a massive dis-identification of consciousness from the mental framework as a result. eckhart was teaching "you are not your mind" in the Power of Now CD and it seemed to "come alive". there came a clear realization that everything "i" believed about "me" amounted to no more than impotent thoughts in the head - devoid of any reality. it was a shocker, that. suddenly a visualization: my head exploded into millions of shards of "colored glass". OMFG! then it was like i was dying... for REAL! was horrifying in one sense but this so-called life had been so full of suffering (was off-n-on suicidal much of the preceding 47 years) that there was like a "what the f*** have i got to lose?!" attitude. so there came a "letting go" of "me". really didn't know if i'd wake up dead or in a rubber room at the local asylum. yeah - it was like that. blacked out - lost track of time for some time *shrug*. then regained a semi-wakened state in what has been explained to be sat-chit-ananda. from that perch, all was seen, loved and understood as Self or Atman. since then it has been like: real, then strange, then real strange and more recently, altogether UNreal. underlying it all, deep-deepening-deeper-still peace. not that tumult doesn't arise in life situations. spouse died a few months ago after 23 years of marriage and 3.5 years with cancer. son, 16, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a month later. had some (im-)personal tumults a few areas, one of which landed me in jail due to an alcoholic "relapse". financials are precarious at best and yet life is bliss. huh? it's like it's not happening to "me". there's just eternal awareness here in this sack of skin, enjoying the show. speaking of enjoying the show... (nice segue, eh?) keep it up! going to tune in more often. ttfn, patrick good to hear this stuff is happening a lot more now (like, when else, eh?). just swerved into your realm this evening and thought i’d say “oi, mate!” your guest, gavin, prompted me to relate a similar story.

was listening to eckhart some 3.5 years ago in seattle - without any searching/wanting/needing/expectations. in fact, i had no idea who he was. just that a close friend recommended him. she must’ve seen the hell i was living in. anyways, experienced a massive dis-identification of consciousness from the mental framework as a result.

eckhart was teaching “you are not your mind” in the Power of Now CD and it seemed to “come alive”. there came a clear realization that everything “i” believed about “me” amounted to no more than impotent thoughts in the head - devoid of any reality. it was a shocker, that.

suddenly a visualization: my head exploded into millions of shards of “colored glass”. OMFG! then it was like i was dying… for REAL! was horrifying in one sense but this so-called life had been so full of suffering (was off-n-on suicidal much of the preceding 47 years) that there was like a “what the f*** have i got to lose?!” attitude. so there came a “letting go” of “me”. really didn’t know if i’d wake up dead or in a rubber room at the local asylum. yeah - it was like that.

blacked out - lost track of time for some time *shrug*. then regained a semi-wakened state in what has been explained to be sat-chit-ananda. from that perch, all was seen, loved and understood as Self or Atman.

since then it has been like: real, then strange, then real strange and more recently, altogether UNreal. underlying it all, deep-deepening-deeper-still peace. not that tumult doesn’t arise in life situations. spouse died a few months ago after 23 years of marriage and 3.5 years with cancer. son, 16, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a month later. had some (im-)personal tumults a few areas, one of which landed me in jail due to an alcoholic “relapse”. financials are precarious at best and yet life is bliss. huh? it’s like it’s not happening to “me”. there’s just eternal awareness here in this sack of skin, enjoying the show.

speaking of enjoying the show… (nice segue, eh?) keep it up! going to tune in more often.

ttfn,

patrick

]]> By: GavT23 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-115105 GavT23 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:14:36 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-115105 Anyone wanting to learn specialist sticky toffee pudding meditative technique or is simply phobic of custard can email me for the cure! nivag23@hotmail.co.uk GavT23 Anyone wanting to learn specialist sticky toffee pudding meditative technique or is simply phobic of custard can email me for the cure!

nivag23@hotmail.co.uk

GavT23

]]> By: Helen http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-115088 Helen Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:53:58 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/03/the-advaita-show-42-with-gavin-from-newcastle-uk/#comment-115088 Great show guys! Thanks for keeping the discussion alive. Helen in LA. Great show guys! Thanks for keeping the discussion alive.

Helen in LA.

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