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Amdor
Netherlands
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 Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 1:51:49 PM
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There’s a new documentary out titled Who’s Driving The Dream Bus featuring spiritual teachers including Gangaji, Jeff Foster, and Tony Parsons. In the film they discuss the age-old question, “Who Am I?”
http://www.whosdrivingthedreambus.c...rmedium.html
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Kirtanman
USA
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Posted - Aug 29 2010 : 10:05:35 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Amdor
There’s a new documentary out titled Who’s Driving The Dream Bus featuring spiritual teachers including Gangaji, Jeff Foster, and Tony Parsons. In the film they discuss the age-old question, “Who Am I?”
http://www.whosdrivingthedreambus.c...rmedium.html
I just found out about this; it looks great!
There are a few clips on YouTube, too, including:
The Trailer.
Tony Parsons
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Gangaji
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amoux
United Kingdom
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Posted - Sep 08 2010 : 11:24:15 AM
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Ordered the dvd and sat down today to watch it. It's excellent - so thanks for the recommendation.
Probably not a good idea to watch it if you want to hang on to the personal self a bit longer ...  |
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11jono11
United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 15 2010 : 11:07:01 AM
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Very good, thank you for this post, definitely worth a watch, possibly a few times.
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Probably not a good idea to watch it if you want to hang on to the personal self a bit longer
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Tibetan_Ice
Canada
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Posted - Oct 15 2010 : 3:11:14 PM
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Hi,
I ordered the DVD a while ago and watched it.
The thing that upset me the most was this: at one point in the film someone asked if there was anything you could do to become enlightened. The reply was "no". Then the person (I think it was Jeff Foster on the 'extras' disk but I'm not sure) said that yoga is good for relaxation and that meditation was good for calming the mind but neither discipline was going to get you enlightened.
Kind of bothered me..
:)
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CarsonZi
Canada
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Posted - Oct 15 2010 : 3:17:52 PM
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Originally posted by Tibetan_Ice
Kind of bothered me..
Kind of bothered who?
Hahaha....sorry, just being an Advaitass 
Love!
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tonightsthenight
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Posted - Oct 15 2010 : 3:24:59 PM
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Speaking of the actual question who's driving this bus?, the title of the film actually got me thinking:
I have no idea about the Who, but it seems to me that consciousness must take on the shape of the pyramid. Essentially, a circle, where the object is in the circle, the field of vision so to speak. And the point of the pyramid, where the point of perception rests... that which is thought to subject... but of course the pyramid shape only exists in duality, so in non-duality it must be somehow folded over itself (mathematically)...
I know, totally random and tangential... sorry but i thought it was interesting!
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11jono11
United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 15 2010 : 3:58:19 PM
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quote:
Hi,
I ordered the DVD a while ago and watched it.
The thing that upset me the most was this: at one point in the film someone asked if there was anything you could do to become enlightened. The reply was "no". Then the person (I think it was Jeff Foster on the 'extras' disk but I'm not sure) said that yoga is good for relaxation and that meditation was good for calming the mind but neither discipline was going to get you enlightened.
Kind of bothered me..
Same here. Though meditation, mindfulness, yoga all seem to point to enlightenment, in a way there is nothing YOU can do to get YOURSELF enlightened but perhaps it could be interpreted as, they do lead to enlightenment but that is just what is happening, what would be happening anyway, in a kind of deterministic way, we think we are doing the practice and we are but it is actually just happening, though at the same time we are choosing to do it. Maybe it does decrease the time in which the part of the One called me or you becomes aware of it itself as the One but it just happens, do "you" see what "I" am getting at? don't know if "I" do . Advaitic soft determinism.
Hope this doesn't come across as patronizing, was just reading this and found myself typing this response.
Though to repeat myself "I" share "your" feelings and was also kind of bothered.
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Hahaha....sorry, just being an Advaitass
New favourite word and it's uses in spiritual discussion are limitless, thank you
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Tibetan_Ice
Canada
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Posted - Oct 16 2010 : 3:11:39 PM
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Originally posted by CarsonZi
quote:
Originally posted by Tibetan_Ice
Kind of bothered me..
Kind of bothered who?
Hahaha....sorry, just being an Advaitass
Love!
Ha ha :) Too funny!
It bothered the same part of my mind that was amused in your mind by my post.
:)
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sagebrush
USA
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Posted - Oct 28 2010 : 10:21:32 AM
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I enjoyed the humor carson.
I always feel on the edge when someone pulls the rug out from under my feet. exhilirating at times
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