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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013510)" |
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| Leonard, Integral Transformative Practice. I watched him go through a dramatic |
| personal transformation after participating in Professor of Asian Studies, Frederick |
| Spiegelberg's seminar (with meditation lab) about Sri Arubindo's interpretation of |
| the Hindu Bible, the Bhagavad-Gita. Shortly after the semester, he climbed into an |
| abandoned tower on campus to continue his meditation. He remained there for |
| several months, refusing to come down even after the Stanford Student Health |
| Service sent a medical school psychiatrist to investigate. I was more than curious |
| about how it was that this hard drinking, and like his brother Dennis, all night poker |
| playing, Phi Gamma Delta party boy, had suddenly become a transcendent ascetic. |
| My girl friend Mary and I signed up for Spiegelberg's seminar in Indian |
| Religions. We were made breathless by his accounts of administering a Rorschach |
| Test to the Indian Saint, Swami Sivananda. He recounted discussions about God |
| with the artists Paul Klee and Max Ernst and the philosophers Rudolph Otto, Paul |
| Tillich, Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber. As homework, Mary and I practiced |
| breathing awareness mediation twice a day. During the year, Spiegelberg |
| sponsored a visit by the aging but still very lively Aldous Huxley to our seminar. He |
| also brought us Alan Watts and several lecturers from the Jung Institute of San |
| Francisco. Shortly after hearing Huxley talk about the spiritual power of a particular |
| exercise of will and loving thoughts, Mary and I began the daily practice of karessa, |
| some call it coitus reservatus. I was eighteen and she was nineteen. We found that |
| withholding an orgasm in order to achieve nirvanic extinction of all desires and |
| passions was difficult. We spent hours in karessa meditation, trying to experience |
| the detachment described in the Bhagadvad Gita. This biblical explication of karma |
| yoga told how it was that the warrior, Ardjuna, instructed by God Krishna in the form |
| of his charioteer, was able to detach sufficiently to do his assigned job of killing |
| without emotional involvement. Ken Wilbur, a modern, self proclaimed pandit, an |
| academically oriented articulator and intellectual justifier of the dharma, the spiritual |
| work of Hindu and Buddhist practice, contrasts the nirvana (literally "end") |
| composed of emptiness in time and space, dharma Kaya in which "... no objects are |
| arising..." with the lesson of the Bhagavad-Gita. Its message involved realizing |
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