Lawson, there's a wonderful tape in which someone asks Maharishi if in Unity a
person could marry anyone. Maharishi laughs and then explains that differences
don't disappear in Unity. It's just that they no longer dominate awareness.
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:43 PM, "lengli...@cox.net
[FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
So you're saying that an enlightened person loses the ability to
descriminate between a flower and a duck?
Or loses the ability to name things because they see the fundamental unity in
the diversity?
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote :
The way Maharishi explained the "illusion of Maya" is rather different than
what a lot of people understand.
Consciousness is not an illusion, nor is what most people call "reality."
The illusion is that there is a fundamental difference between them.
This is the "veil of maya": a thin, non-existent membrane that separates the
two which is merely an artifact of our perception of things based on having a
nervous system. Full enlightenment is when you can full see on both sides of
that non-existent veil.
I'll go along with that, except for the bit about seeing everything on both
sides after enlightenment.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <inmadison@...> wrote :
This may be above my pay-grade, but if one is a transcendentalist/idealist,
then belief in classic cause and effect is incompatible with that belief . . .
or one has to significantly qualify what is meant by cause and effect. Many
folks who refer to them selves as transcendentalists/idealists are actually
dualists, or simply rebranded materialists (I am not suggesting you are)
Regarding the 'illusion' - when you pick up an object, like an apple for
example, what does your experience tell you? When I pick up an apple, I see
it's color and shape, I feel the texture and if pressed with a fingernail - I
can sense the sticky juice, I taste the tart sweetness . . . and I remember
apple pies and so forth. My experience of the apple is passionate and lively -
Where is the illusion? Toss in more awareness and all you get is more passion
- there is no illusion. 'Illusion' is just India of old - we don't need no
stinking illusion in the 21st century. #yiv4918074001 #yiv4918074001 --
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