--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When something falls from one's hand to the floor, we perceive the > occurrence as mistake. If not we wouldn't even pick the thing up. > > From a bigger perspective everything may be perfect as it is, but > perceiving something as a mistake or error may activate changes > in our behavioural patterns. > <snip> > Perceiving everything as perfect in daily life I feel to be a > kind of mood making.
It's a good point. If one truly believes that every action they perform is perfect, where is the impetus to *improve*, to *do better*? I once knew a guy, a Japanese martial artist, who was widely regarded as the best in the world at his particular art. But the *secret* of being the best at his art was that he considered himself a beginner, and every practice session his first practice session, an opportunity to "get it right" this time. One of the benefits of this approach was that he was never bored, even after practicing the same movement for the 10,000th time. I don't think he would have felt the same way -- or become as good as he was -- if he'd bought into the "everything is perfect just as it is" mindset. I think that sometimes people forget one of Maharishi's most valuable teschings, "Knowledge is different in different states of consciousness." "Everything is perfect as it is" is true in only one of them; from the others it's just mood-making, and possibly not very productive mood-making. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
