The Secret - BUSTED!

I have long since realized that the much touted "Secret" is bogus. The DVD was interesting, but it is so simplistic and the thinking "magical" that it was easy for me to disregard it. Of course, I have had the advantage of exposure to the Buddha and brilliant expositions such as The Heart Sutra. Exposure to "I Am That" by Sri Nisargadatta and exposure to non-dualism period. How many around the world, eagerly buying up copies of "The Secret" have been innoculated against such pie in the sky?

Anywho, a friend of mine, David, sent this email today regarding HIS take on the "Secret" :

e Secret Busted--- Flaws of the Secret.

Hi Folks!

I guess most of you have read or at least heard about "The Secret".

I think it was at that time that I was being drawn to Non duality and
was reading books like "I am That" .

That's why I could feel a slight confusion and there was a sort of
disconnect somewhere.

Here, "The Secret" tells you that you are the creator of everything
around you and it is our thoughts and our vibrations that we send out
to the universe that determine our lives.

"The secret" would have us believe that we are the most important
beings in the universe and everything else is there to fulfill our
wishes.
I guess it was our greed and wishful thinking which led us to believe
whatever "The Secret" tries to teach us.

Now, we come to Non duality where we are told that "you" are an
illusion. The ego doesn't exist. There is only beingness. In his
book " I am That", Nisargadatta Maharaj reveal that we are just the
witness of whatever happens.

Feelings arise, Thoughts arise --- You are just the witness of these.
All you do is watch the show.

In the words of the Buddha " Events happen, deeds are done.But there
is no individual doer of these deeds."

So, it becomes clear enough that we can either believe one of these.
Either there is no doer OR there is a doer who can think thoughts and
send vibrations out to the universe.

So, there is a choice for me -- I can believe Rhonda Byrne(Author of
The Secret) OR I could believe the Buddha.

I dont know about you but I would rather vote for The Buddha.

Even If you dont know about the buddha or Rhonda. What does your
experience say.

How many circumstances have you been able to control?

Well, I dont think that I can do justice to this topic in one blog
post but I will be adding more about this later.

So I end it here now with a quote from Ramesh Balsekar ---

"You have not controlled your birth, you are not going to control
your death. And you are not in control of anything in between"
posted by Faraz Ahmed @ 11:26 PM