--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote:
> Teaching the Knowledge > * > As a teacher, there is a different, more difficult lesson that must be > accepted personally: if someone chosen by the Unified Field to be a > prophet or a leader refuses to teach the truth, as Jonah did for > example, then Nature will visit a terrible punishment on them. > * > However, the reverse is even more true�Nature will grant favor and > delight to those who do preach the truth. > Om, Om, Om, come back, come back to meditation you sinners. > The bell tolls for thee, > In warm regard of natural law, > -Buck in FF This kind of heavy handed Buck. Fortunately I am not immune to being heavy handed in thought, and as Barry would possibly say, overbearing and pompous. If the unified field is truth, one cannot actually speak it, one can only point to it because it is transcendent to speech. All speech in the world in reference to it is as a lie. Nature is not personal, it visits on one without regard to person. Favour and delight are the experience of those who experience the unified field, but nature remains the same impersonal force of will that is the unified field, enlightened or unenlightened. It is not will as a person imagines will to be; it is far more mysterious and inscrutable. The Greek word for sin in the Bible is 'amarkon' which means to miss the mark. In the West the Christian idea of sin seems to be the predominant meaning, and it has many connotations that seem to go quite beyond simply missing the mark. But usage that is common here has many judgmental implications that really serve no useful purpose if your aim is to point people in the direction of enlightenment. If you 'look' at the process of transcendental meditation, what you experience is you are handing off the process and letting nature take it over. That is it. If we are able to culture our system to do that under all circumstances, we are home free. It is the personal sense of will that interferes with this process in daily life. 'Transcendental meditation' as a principle can be practiced many ways; Maharishi seems to have discovered a compact technique that encapsulates this principle; it is quite a stroke of genius. There are those that have come by the principle in other ways that have been successful; whatever works to imbue this principle in our lives is more powerful than simply following a rigid formula in regard to what truth might be. You seem to be starting to sound like the vengeful force that permeates the Torah and other books that Christians call the Old Testament. Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. - Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787)
