--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > Rory describes the dysfunctional way I absorbed the teaching for > > many years, but in fairness to Maharishi, I recall many times when > > he talked about "the pathless path," implying we're already there. > > Yes indeed. I posted a quote from "Science of Being" > to this effect a couple days ago. > > > I also recall a period in the 1990s when he seemed to be > > trying to dislodge whatever conceptual attachments were > > preventing our awakening to what is already there, talking > > about the "mistake of the intellect" and what have you. > > > > In short, for me, it might be fairer to fault my understanding than > > MMY's attempts to straighten it out. > > My experience--after some years of living fairly > happily with MMY's concepts without examining them > too closely--has been that if I take one of them > right down to the nitty-gritty, I end up with a > paradox or an infinite regress. At first this > bothered me, then I began to find it liberating. > > The "mistake of the intellect" is key. Intellectual > teaching can *only* be delivered and received on the > level of the "mistake," by definition. It follows > that any teaching about the ultimate Unity of reality > that does *not* break down into paradox or infinite > regress, when you take it as far as it can go, must > be inauthentic. >
A few years back I re-listened to most of the 4 volumes of audio tapes that Maharishi made for centers with the express purpose of looking for references to the pathless path, pure non dualism, instead of the dualism that is normaly emphasised. It's all there, but under the usual surface. JohnY 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/
