--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm a bit of a hard case on this subject :-), but I think > that trusting *anyone* more than you trust yourself is > the culprit here. The problem is not in trusting Maharishi > and what he says more than you trust your own perceptions, > it's trusting *anyone* -- any authority figure in the > world -- more than you trust your own perceptions. The > very process of doing this is, in my opinion, contrary > to the process of enlightenment. > This-your paragraph right about this-seems to be very mythic as Joseph Campbell talks so clearly about. It's the story of the young child totally trusting the parents and, as they get older, they eventually reject the parent and usually go through a period of disdain for the parents. He gives many examples of this and literature is filled with the same. Good reminder Barry, thanks. > Enlightenment is all *about* trusting yourSelf more than > you trust anyone or anything else. It's about realizing > that what you have sought has never not been present, > and that all the seeking was just something to do until > you realized that there was nowhere to go, nothing to > gain, nothing to seek. That realization is *always* > subjective, internal. It can never be fully understood > intellectually; it can never be described in words; it > can only be experienced. On this I am not sure and maybe sometime in my life it will become clearer. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
