tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835218475794207821.post7597995544360954907..comments2024-02-08T04:20:25.937-06:00Comments on Enlightenment For No One: Neo-Advaita & Traditional AdvaitaMaury Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15069923174216911346noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835218475794207821.post-80337970158093414942008-06-24T17:48:00.000-05:002008-06-24T17:48:00.000-05:00Thanks for your post. I have read all of Bernadett...Thanks for your post. I have read all of Bernadette's books, and love them dearly. <BR/><BR/>As you know words are just pointers. Neither what I saw or what Bernadette says contains that which is. Words are pointers. <BR/><BR/>The truth matters. Whether you call it non dualism, or something else, irrelevant. <BR/><BR/>Love, <BR/><BR/>MauryMaury Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15069923174216911346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835218475794207821.post-77174764758082596742008-06-07T21:51:00.000-05:002008-06-07T21:51:00.000-05:00Having attended many retreats given by Bernadette ...Having attended many retreats given by Bernadette Roberts over a period of nearly twenty-five years, I know for certain that her paradigm is completely different from "nondualism"-- Advaita or otherwise. <BR/><BR/>Indeed, she calls the nondualist misconception of her paradigm "forcing the fit," which she defines in a recent book as "redefining, clipping, pasting, twisting-- to make the original fit a dissonant paradigm" (Roberts, "Forcing the Fit," Foreword, 2008). <BR/><BR/>In her essay, "Nondualism," she writes: "It is unfortunate that those who aspire to a nondual state will never reach it-- because it doesn't exist. In truth it is just another illusion to be dispelled. With or without self, there is no state in the journey truly 'nondual,' neither in our earthly journey nor in heaven" (Roberts, "Essays on the Christian Contemplative Journey," 2007, p. 71.) <BR/><BR/>In addition, she clearly distinguishes her paradigm from that of nondualism in another work, "What Is Self? The Spiritual Journey In Terms of Consciousness." All books cited above are available at http://www.bernadettesfriends.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com