--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer" <jeffcandace@> > wrote: > > > > When one has *awakened* where do they go when they drop the body? > > > More seriously, it kinda depends on who you believe. > Maharishi always went with the "drop returning to the > ocean" theory, meaning that when one has realized > enlightenment (and he often specified 'CC' as the type > of enlightenment he was talking about) and then kicks the > bucket, there is no more reincarnation. The relative body > drops away and only the absolute remains, never taking > relative form again.
This one never attracted me. Don't want to be a drip. > 1. One can decide to try for non-reincarnation and perform > after-death techniques to merge with light and not return > in a body. Suffice it to say that unless one has practiced > these techniques for many years *before* kicking the bucket > this rarely works. > > 2. One can decide *to* reincarnate (for example as part of > a desire to teach), and using other after-death techniques, > have a great deal of say as to when, where, and in what form > one reincarnates. # 2 is more for me. Desire to serve and help rather than teach. > 3. One can decide not to decide. One just kicks the bucket > and sees what happens. # 3 is the one I have the most experience with :-) > Of the three, I'm most attracted to Door Number Three. It > seems to have the least amount of attachment or aversion > going for it. Let's face it...Door Number One is a theory > based primarily on aversion for the relative and for > incarnate life, and Door Number Two seems based on ego and > an attachment to trying to bring others to enlightenment. > Only Door Number Three seems to be about accepting whatever > happens. Even if it's Disneyland. :-) >
