--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > these are all from Maharishi > > > > The inner sphere of life is the source of the outer, it is the fountainhead > of the outer spring of life. > Inner life is absolute bliss consciousness. > * > Make bliss the prime motivation for doing anything. > * > A direct experience of the Blissful nature of the Soul and the inner man is > completely transformed. The mind, experiencing the Great Bliss, feels > satisfaction and this satisfaction of the mind results in right > understanding and virtuous action, kindness, love and compassion for all. > * > When coherence becomes blissful, then it is all powerful coherence and > bliss. > Bliss is the only force that can bind people together. > * > The philosophy of life is this: > Life is not a struggle, not a tension. > Life has not to be suffering. > Life is bliss. > It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. > * > Life is bliss. > Man is born to enjoy the grace of God. > Just float in bliss and nature will take care of everything else. > * > Every perception, the hearing of every word, the touch of every little > particle, every smell brings a tidal wave of the ocean of bliss. > * > The world is the divine made active, everything rising as a wave on the > eternal ocean of bliss consciousness. > * > Kindness and delicacy of heart develops as the heart begins to melt from the > experience of bliss and the great happiness of transcendental Being. The > heart becomes softer, and then a man cannot by nature be harsh or > displeasing to anyone. Speech will flow naturally in all harmony. > * > The direct experience of transcendental bliss gives a man such a great > contentment that the joys of the relative world fail to make a deep > impression on him, and he rises above the binding influence of action. > * > Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe > is nothing but ananda. > * > The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy > for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it through out life. > * > In everyone there is an ocean of bliss, and ocean of love and joy an ocean > of pure knowledge and divine glory.
I am going back to Rick's list of quotes, because y'all are getting me mixed up with that there abstract talk and all! An "ocean of love and joy," and "ocean of pure knowledge and divine glory" doesn't sound much like being a state of attachment. I think of bliss not so much as a "happy" or "giggly" state or "stupid bliss" but closer to what <gasp> MMY said when he talks of love, compassion, joy, contentment and knowledge. Now whether he reached that state or not is a different story. >
