--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > > wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > Continuing with that thought, why does this feeling exist that > > > > if only we could bring about massive social, economic, and > > > > spiritual change would the world then be OK? Does such a > > > > reality even exist? And if it does, so what? Does it solve each > > > > of our personal problems, and if so, for how long? > > > > > > Maharishi was once asked: If, as he had said, > > > everything is perfect just as it is, why are > > > TMers working so hard to change things? > > > > > > "That too is perfect just as it is," he replied. > > > > > Yep, yet another paradox. Gosh, they're everywhere! (perhaps > > because the Universe and the intellect were never meant to be > > mirrors of one another...). Funny though, how the waking mind will > > tend to equate perfection or utopia with stagnation or stasis > > And that too... > > The neat thing about paradoxes is that they allow you > to triangulate *from* the intellect to that which is > *beyond* the intellect. > Exactly. The attempt by the intellect to hold both opposing values of a paradox as true simultaneously, transcends the intellect.
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