Yes, a result of many tumbled houses of cards!
--- In [email protected], "Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
