--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > Take a quote of Maharishi's that Judy drools over > from time to time here: > > Q: Maharishi, if everything is, as you say, perfect > just as it is, why are we working so hard to change > things? > > A: That too is perfect just as it is. > > To me, this is Guru 101-speak, the kind of stuff > that *anyone* can spout if they're trying to sound > profound and think that people will buy this level > of contradiction, and see no contradictions in it. > It has zero level of profundity for me, but to her, > it seems to be genuinely profound. She keeps bring- > ing it up as if it's one of the most profound > things she's ever heard.
Actually, I think it's pretty cool too, because it blows apart the misconception that perceiving the perfection of what IS is merely a recipe to perpetuate a static status quo -- something that apparently is *still* confusing a lot of people, if FFL is any indicator :-) > What would it take for it to sound profound to > me? Well, given my background and my experiences, > it would take Maharishi first talking about the > way he wants to change things, and shifting the > state of consciousness of all of the people in > the audience to a radically different state of > attention from the state of attention they walked > in wity, and from which they can see as clearly > as he does what needs to be changed, and how to > change it. > > And then, when the student asks the same good > question, he shifts the state of consciousness > of everyone in the audience to yet another rad- > ically different state of attention, Unity, from > which they can see the perfection of everything > that is, just *as* it is. > > In other words, I've worked with teachers who > can put a little phwam! behind their words, so > that they're not just words. When they're talk- > ing of the world as it appears from, say, CC, > they can shift the state of attention of those > who are listening to the state of CC, so that > the words are "reinforced" by their own exper- > ience as they listen to them. Five minutes later, > when the teacher has shifted to describing the > world as it appears from the state of Unity, > they can shift the state of attention of the > students such that they can *experience* the > way that the world looks from the level of Unity, > so that the students' perception "matches" the > teachers' words. It's funny you should bring this up, Barry -- *that* was exactly how I "got" C.C. on one of my first residence courses! I was witnessing my brains out, and watching a tape by MMY *describing* witnessing and C.C., and *that* was what made the connection -- "Oh my God -- he's talking about THIS!" Something I had had no words, no concept for before, though it had certainly been present. I can't speak for everyone else in the audience, of course, but that surely worked for *me*. Thanks for giving me yet another reason to pass my gratitude back to MMY and Guru Dev, the Self behind my Self! You're *still* a great TM-teacher, Barry :-) *L*L*L*
