--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I was looking at archived files and found this one pretty quickly. > > I decided to post it again for everyone's enjoyment. It can be > > found in the Files/FFLIndex.html section, or as message 4002, from > > Michael Dean Goodman. I have copied a [lengthy] excerpt from that > > message. Normally I wouldn't copy something so long, but this > > writing is extraordinary in its simplicity and clarity: > > Thanks, Jim. Michael's explanations are indeed > extraordinary. > > I wish he were around. This piece *almost* convinces > me that I'm Self-realized, but I'd really like to ask > him about being overshadowed by the relative, which is > my sole basis for saying I'm not Self-realized. > > If my experience is that I'm overshadowed, how would > Michael interpret that in terms of what he says in > this piece? >
You may be associating that peculiar unintegrated 'witnessing' phenomenon with Self realization. As an ardent seeker, when I first started TM and did a few residence courses, I remember this experience I would have of being clearly distant from what I was doing; witnessing activity. I felt so free, and it was such a relief to be briefly released from the strain of seeking that the witnessing experience made a deep impression on me as synonomous with self Realization. However, I see now that the experience I had previously of witnessing was not fully integrated; that my typical daily life experience of Self realization is quite normal- nothing remarkable in and of itself. And yet, if I choose to take a minute and sense where my Self is, within myself, it is easily found. Oddly, as that which is attributeless bliss... And I am sure that you have the same experience. So, when Self realized, we don't feel any differently, it is just that life takes on an easier, more seamless quality. As Michael says in his piece, to paraphrase, we perform spontaneous right action (vs. strained right action). Hope this helps! ------------------------ 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/
