--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Judy > > Yes that is it. The wording sounds just a slight bit difference and > maybe it was edited very slightly from the original, but, yes, that is > the section I had underlined and have remembered lo these many years. > > It fit nicely with the admonition Maharishi gave to a small room of > people way back in the mid 70s in Livingston Manor when he made a > surprise visit. In response to a question (Rick Archer says it was a > question he asked) Maharishi told us (again paraphrased): > "Every day is life...we don't pass up the present based on a more > glorious future..." > > and he spoke to the idea that many of us were holding (and many > still do) that we ere reticent to allow ourselves to be fully > engaged in activity for fear of being overshadowed yet the name of > the game (at least it used to be) was/is, meditate and then act. > And when you are engaged in the field of activity you don't analyze > your every thought word and deed.
Exactly. When I learned TM, we were told to meditate and then "plunge into" activity. The deeper the absorption in and involvement with the activity, the better. > Somewhere else either in the SOB or the Gita he talks about the > practice (akin to modern day Mindfulness) of holding our attention > on what we do when we are doing it and talks about how this creates > disintegration of the mind-body connection. I think that's in the same section, actually. "Dividing the mind," he calls it, if I'm thinking of the same thing you are. 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/
