--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 6/3/05 7:29 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > On Jun 3, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Peter Sutphen wrote: > > > > > >>> > > >>> Ego-inflation is an OK thing if it gets the job > > >>> done. > > >> > > >> What is the job and when is it done and how in the > > >> world will an arrogant ego help this? > > > > > > It may be just they are being trained like their "master"--to > attain > > > "Black Rudra"--the form of enlightenment where the ego is not > > > relinquished. It is believed by some that a number of the > charismatic > > > holymen selling their wares and oh so prevalent nowadays fall in > this > > > category. > > > > Maharishi explicitly stated, in a lecture at Harvard Law School and > > elsewhere, that we don't relinquish or destroy the ego with his > path, but > > rather make it bigger, stronger, etc., until it becomes as big as > the whole > > universe. Amma commented (not with reference to MMY) that this path > can work > > but is dangerous. >
> I don't think that MMY is talking about the same kind of ego that > others are. *************** Ego means "sense of self." When that sense of self is limited, it is a problem for the world, especially when that limited sense of self tries to impose itself on others without an accompanying expansion of awareness (think Donald Trump). What MMY is talking about in discussing the expansion of ego to cosmic status is just the innocent accompaniment of the ego with the expansion of awareness experienced through TM, which results in a state in which one is enabled to love one's neighbor as one loves oneself, because "the whole world is my family" is a reality, not moodmaking. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
