--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's my impression too. The point isn't to absorb > the teacher's qualities of *mind* but his/her qualities > of *consciousness*. Moreover, it's the process of > surrender itself, I should think, that does most of the > "work" of structuring freedom. > >
This discussion, and Judy's point (everyone's collectively, really) brough to mind the passage from the Gita (Gita scholars chime in here) where it says (paraphrased) "...better to die in one's own dharma than trying to take on the dharma of another..." I know that this has really had to come into play in my own life, realizing that all that I took and and tried to be via my long years with the TM org were attempts at living someone elses vision of how my life should be lived. And I've seen this struggle in so many others. Some have successfully managed to imbibe qualites/ways of living that, initially, seemed so alien, and they truly made them their own. Others, like me, strained to be a certain way and in many ways it backfired. I feel like I wasted years of my life, from age 30-40, knowing and experiencing my life as anything but a success but unwilling/unable to escape from the deep rut I had dug myself into from taking on a massive belief system that clearly wasn't working but which I clung to in the hopes I was wrong and any second now it was going to work. This never happened until I decided to "get out" and even then (15+ years ago) and now, I struggle with the whole thing. > > > > Ricks example of those around him now I think is false. They are > > "works in progress". Better examples are SSRS. Perhaps Chopra. For > > more finsihed works. > > > > Look at the holy tradition. Was each master a clone of his master? > > Hardly, it seems. What is passed down is consciousness awakened to > > itself. Content is not "the thing". > ------------------------ 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/
