Jim, thanks that's beautiful.
--- In [email protected], "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@...>
wrote:
>
> The key word is "story". As far as I can tell, all living things
attempt to continuously solve problems, like a spider spinning a web to
increase its capability to feed itself, or a cheetah sprinting at 70 mph
for the same purpose.
>
> For us humans, problem solving takes on another dimension, in that we
like to solve problems not just for food and shelter, but to explain
ourselves to ourselves. Given that we have the ability to directly
apprehend the Infinite, a limited story of ourselves or others told by
the intellect to satisfy the heart will never be absolutely true, or
absolutely satisfying.
>
> Towards that end though, much as RC/MZ has done, some of us strive
mightily to build a towering intellectual edifice that we can easily
reference and therefore solve the "problem" of our feelings about
ourselves or something we perceive to be external. We attempt to solve
all of our problems with one or many grand stories.
>
> However, the universe within us will never accept any story as the the
ultimate truth, and so constantly, innocently changes our feelings about
ourselves and the world we create in order to give the house of cards we
have built a gentle push from time to time and have us begin anew.
>
> Once we begin to live the impermanence of any story (including too,
the intellectual fixation that there are no stories, aka Turq) we are on
our way to really understanding ourselves and living our universal
nature.
>
> --- In [email protected], "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote:
> >
> > "I have never heard that MMY declared Robin to be fully enlightened
with
> > no more growth possible. only that his experiences were sufficiently
> > valid to have him describe them to other TM teachers."
> > Thanks for the clarification Lawson, makes sense to me. However
Robin's
> > story seems to be much more dramatic and just doesn't seem to add
up.
