--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Steve Martin of
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> On Feb 24, 2008, at 6:30 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
> >>>>>
> This is where I disagree with Maharishi's
> traditional interpretation
> of the value of this experience. I think he takes
> these useful states
> too far. For example witnessing sleep in a nap seems
> very restful and
> efficient. Witnessing sleep at night doesn't seem as
> restful.
> Witnessing in activity is not my preferred state to
> interact with the
> world. It isn't even my preferred style of
> functioning with my own
> mind and emotions. This is a fundamental difference
> of opinion I have
> with Maharishi concerning its value for a person's
> life. It comes at
> a cost. You kind of have to buy into his whole
> perspective on life to
> think of it as a step of higher consciousness, which
> is a step I am
> not taking.
>
> Witnessing is not a dissassociative state in which
> different aspects of the
> personality are fragmented from one another. Its a
> natural experience that
> arises when the silent aspect of life is open to
> awareness along with the
> active aspects. It doesnt diminish ones
> functionality, but enhances it. For
> instance, recently I had to break up a serious dog
> fight. I was walking an
> unneutered chow/husky mix off a leash and he ran
> ahead and began sniffing
> around an unneutered, leashed German Shepherd. Soon
> they were fighting. I
> had to run 50 yards, then reach in and grab the chow
> with teeth flashing
> everywhere, blood flowing, and the Shepherds owner
> swearing at the top of
> his lungs. The same silence that always underlies my
> activities was even
> more evident, by contrast, and enabled me to react
> swiftly and decisively
> and keep my head while the other dog owner (and my
> wife) were losing theirs.
> It was as though I were in deep meditation
> throughout the whole dynamic,
> noisy experience. Not withdrawn or passive in the
> least just
> imperturbable.
You walked an unneutered Chow/Husky mix off-leash
around another unneutered German Shepard? The
Upanishads say this is a very bad thing to do!
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