Guest guest Posted September 16, 2002 Report Share Posted September 16, 2002 Then there came at the end of a four day binge a moment of absolute certainty that that phase of my life was over. It was like a switch had been thrown. The obsession was gone. It wasn't a matter of having to resist or do anything. It was gone. And what was staggeringly clear is that I hadn't done it. If I hadn't done it, the question then became, " What has done this to me? If I am not the master of my destiny, what is? " This was the point at which my head went into the tiger's mouth, the jaws closed, and there was no escape. I became a seeker. Within fifteen months the seeking lead me to Ramesh. I had been a drunk much of my life, and now I was with all of these veteran seekers around Ramesh. While I had been on a barstool, they had been in ashrams in India or attending spiritual retreats. They knew all the buzzwords Ramesh was using: noumenon, phenomenon, Consciousness-at-rest; they even knew how to spell Nisargadatta. They knew what siddhis were and what all this other Hindu stuff was. I hadn't heard of any of it. I said to Ramesh, " I really feel like a child being with these people. All these people have this knowledge that I don't have. He said, " Do you know what sadhana is? " I said, " No. " And he said, " Sadhana is the path, the notional path that a seeker goes along, which has various practices associated with it that are said to break down identification with the ego. Your sadhana, the sadhana of the body-mind organism of Wayne, was to drink and use drugs for nineteen years. That's what was required for that body-mind organism to get to a point where the ego-identification could be broken sufficiently, that is its hold on the sense of personal doership could be broken sufficiently to begin this seeking. " Wayne Liquorman Interviewed by Blayne Bardo May 1988 http://3rdmg.xoasis.com/interview1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 16, 2002 Report Share Posted September 16, 2002 Re: Sadhana can be 'drink & drug use' - Wayne -------- Not to be confused with " wallowing in your own vhomit " . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 16, 2002 Report Share Posted September 16, 2002 one minute your walliwing in your vomit ,the next,its looking pretty good,in australia here there is a book and cartoon wheres wally and you try to find wally as he is blended into the other characters,on the page, i think use that in pre schools here, i like the sound of that ariel --- el_wells_2002 <elizabethwells wrote: <HR> <html><body> <tt> <BR> <BR> Re: Sadhana can be 'drink & amp; drug use' - Wayne<BR> <BR> --------<BR> <BR> Not to be confused with<BR> & quot;wallowing in your own vhomit & quot;.<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </tt> <br> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2> <tr bgcolor=#FFFFCC> <td align=center><font size= " -1 " color=#003399><b> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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