--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > As Llundrub pointed out yesterday, there is no > acceptance of the perfection of the world as > it is, only a compulsion to remake the world > into the image of it his self dreams about. > And the closer he gets to dying, the more he > wants to make what a truly enlightened being > would have realized is already perfect "more > perfect," and the more money he needs to remake > this already-perfect world in his own image. > Strange, if you ask me...
And as I responded to Llundrub yesterday: Maharishi was once asked why, if everything is perfect just as it is, TMers were working so hard to change things. MMY replied, "That too is perfect just as it is." "Everything is perfect" means just that, *everything*, including whatever people are doing to change things. It isn't a matter of "more perfect." It's that change is part of the perfection. Perfection doesn't consist of freezing this instant in time just as it is; how could it? Things will change whether you work for change or not. Or to put it another way, you can't *not* work for change--you can't stop things in their tracks. If you don't actively work for change, things will still change, just in a different way than they would have if you *had* actively worked for change, so by doing nothing you're working for them to change in that different way. But whatever way things change, it will be perfect. Whatever you choose to do, or not do, will be perfect. So on a practical level, "everything is perfect just as it is" isn't a useful insight; it's essentially meaningless. It has no implications for doing or not-doing. As an experience of consciousness, it means that you will perceive whatever you and everyone else is doing or not-doing as perfect, including making mistakes, and trying or not trying to remedy those mistakes. To suggest that someone must not really be experiencing that everything is perfect just as it is because they are working for change is a misunderstanding of what is meant by the expression. But that too, of course, is perfect just as it is. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
