---Well Said.. In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Robert Gimbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Anyone want to take a stab at this issue. It seems that we are > going for both attributes on the path to Self- > Realization...Detachment is mentioned on the Buddha literature and > dogma, and detachment seems to be a huge part of Maharishi's > teaching; namely the witnessing aspect of CC, and the ego's collapse. > > > > While at the same time, many of the world's most powerful > teachings, have more to do with compassion; The most basic teachings > of Jesus, all are based in love and forgiveness; and examples of many > in the church, the Saints, like St. Francis of Assisi, speak to the > leaving of wealth and power behind, in exchange for humility and > grace. In these branches of spiritual teaching, detachment seems to > be from the material world, in exchange for the things of Spirit, > compassion, being an essence of this teaching. > > > > The path that Maharishi seems to be providing, sometimes is > regarded as too materialistic, too wealth oriented, too power hungry, > and all the rest. All of these feelings could be said to be rooted in > detachment and lack of compassion. > > > > Like Marie Attoinette, in her day, as Queen of France, was detached > enough to not know of the people's plight, and was so isolated from > reality, that her fate is well known. > > > > Like that, how is detachment and compassion, related? > > What MMY talks about is *nonattachment*, not *detachment*. > > "Detachment" of the Marie Antoinette type is > psychological; *nonattachment* is a function of > development of consciousness, in MMY's teaching. > > What one becomes "nonattached" to is the illusion > of the individual self; one begins to identify > instead with the universal Self as one's most > essential nature. > > When one is no longer focused on one's own > individual needs, one becomes free to devote > one's attention to the needs of others.
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