--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Attempted spiritual rape. > > > > > > > > > > > > Ah! Fodder for Rick and his fascination with all the > > > > > > kiss-and-tell babes with regard to Maharishi. Perhaps > > > > > > all that ever happened was that he tried to tell them > > > > > > something about themselves they didn't want to hear, > > > > > > and in their minds, that became rape. > > > > > > > > > > Yup, that's one of the rapist's favorite excuses: > > > > > All she needed was a really good screwing. > > > > > > > > Ohmygod, she's actually serious! :-) > > > > > > > > The small self is REALLY feeling threatened this time. > > > > > > It's interesting how "rape" is cognate with "rapture," and too > > > how the self can see the "rapture" of the Self as a "rape," > > > and "therapist" as "the rapist." > > > > It would be fascinating if it weren't so scary. > > A self so terrified of losing itself that it > > sees Self as attempted rape. > > Well, it's just another story -- one I can certainly relate and > relate to, as it has seemed that way to me sometimes :-)
I guess I was fortunate, in that none of the experiences in my life of self dropping away and leaving only Self have had the least bit of dread or resistance associated with them. Interestingly enough, it was the same with acid, back in my hippie days. Everyone I knew had at least one "bummer," in which the fear of losing self became so predominant that the person "freaked out." Me, for what- ever reason, I just went with it and had great unity exper- iences. Go figure. All this brou-ha-ha (ha ha) has made me remember a great rap by the Rama fellow I studied with, dealing with this same subject: "At the border of nirvana there's a crossing. And when you reach the border of nirvana, someone will come up to you and inform you that if you enter into nirvana everything that you've ever loved will be lost. You will be alone. There will be the most terrible aloneness that you can imagine. You will be alienated from everything, including yourself, forever. A sense of drifting in a cold, desolate space forever. "At that moment, O nobly-born, all the images from all of your lives will come forward and will demand your attention. They will say, 'Don't cross over there. You will lose us and you will be sorrowful and empty and void.' "If you listen to what that fellow at the border tells you, then you won't cross over. You'll go back to all the things that have bound you and limited you also. You'll go back to both because in the world of duality you have the pairs of opposites. "If you listen to me, which no one does, fortunately, I would suggest that it's not like that at all. That when that fellow comes up to you and warns you against crossing the border, you'll say, 'Listen, several lifetimes ago I read one of Rama's books and while he very rarely says anything of any value whatsoever, there was one point he made which I put on a 3x5 file card which I happen to have in my back pocket. And I was going to review it because he said I'd run into you. I didn't actually believe it at the time but now that I've run into you I just happen to have this file card tucked away here and I'd like to examine it for a moment, if you don't mind.' "And of course he'll say, 'We don't have time, the worlds are turning, existence is manifesting...' And you'll say, 'Just a minute!' You'll take out your faded 3x5 file card, it's a few lifetimes old -- actually, it would be better if you had a plastic one which you had laser engraved, because as we all know plastic lasts forever -- and it says, 'DON'T LISTEN.' Hopefully, it will be in the right language. "Don't listen because in nirvana it's not like that. It's not empty or cold or barren. You don't remember that the ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things you've always loved and always experienced came forth from there and exist there and are always there." ------------------------ 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/
