dear laughingG it's a wonderful transcript, thank you so much for posting. Of
course it reminds me of that pesky old tag line about bliss: that bliss is not
always blissful, that we have to stir the water in the bath tub for that.
Maybe stirring the bath water is the specialty of FFL (-:
May I take this opportunity to say that of course I remember the juicy details
surrounding the revelation of your age by Richard. Perhaps those details are
what inspired me to assign you the role of very cool and popular VICE Principal
at FFL High.
Speaking of which, do you know what I found among my pjs? A top I purchased
TWO years ago. Guess what that top has on it. THREE LITTLE PENGUINS! One
with a winter hat pulled over his eyes. I guess that would be see no evil.
One wearing ear muffs. Probably hear no evil. And one with a winter scarf
pulled up to cover his mouth. Maybe that's speak no evil? Underneath the
penguins are three words:
naughty or nice. I am not making this up (-:
Anyway, I'm taking it as a sign. Happy Holidays dear laughingVP And also
thank you so much for Joy Luck Club post. I hope I remember it when my Mom is
badgering me to get my hair cut. According to her generation, women my age
really shouldn't have long hair.
From: laughinggull108
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 5:31 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Which is worse,,,"really stupid" or "reeely
stooopid"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote:
>
> dear Steve, if I had to be a man, I'd want to be just like you (-:
>
> Now I'm wondering how you would answer Emily's question: is feeling deeply
> stress. My understanding from Maharishi's teaching is that stress actually
> prevents one from feeling deeply. And that as consciousness becomes
> established, one actually can feel more deeply because one is rooted in that
> consciousness. But I'm forgetting some crucial distinction. What do you
> remember? Thank you.
Share, I'm butting in to offer the following transcript of a lecture Maharishi
gave in 1971:
Maharishi on Intellect and Emotions
1971
MAHARISHI: ...Emotions are finer than the mind, thinking. Even so the intellect
is the finest aspect of the mind, the emotions just don`t worry about the
intellect... Emotions are more powerful. It is a good field on which life is
lived. It is on emotion that life is lived. All intellectual decisions come out
of emotion. Emotion is the wave of that aspect of life which is called ananda,
Bliss. Intellect is the impulse of life which is called chit, consciousness.
Absolute is that state of life – not impulse, but state – Absolute is that
state of life which is called Sat, that which never changes. Absolute is that
state of life which knows no change. It is a beautiful thing.
They are all on the same level, but somehow life is more guided by Bliss. The
whole stream of life, every impulse of activity is guided by Bliss – more and
more and more, this is what is called evolution. And this more and more makes
use of the intellect to support it. The intellect always decides in favor of
more and more and more. The impulse of happiness drags along in its direction
the intellect.
So intellect serves emotions. Emotions don't mind which way the intellect will
go – they drag the intellect onto it, by force like that, like that, makes use
of it. Intellect becomes an instrument to bring fulfillment to emotion.
Emotions are structured in Bliss, just as Knowledge is structured in
consciousness... Just as the intellect has its range in all the senses of
perception and also action, so also emotions have their range in all these five
senses of perception and senses of action. They take in the whole thing.
When we talk of intellect and emotion, even when we talk of mind so crude, all
these five senses of perception and these five senses of action – generally we
call them five organs of action – but all are involved with the mind, with the
intellect, with emotion. One sees a rose and one feels so good and immediately
the hands go and feet run, nose smells and eye sees – the whole thing blossoms.
They belong to all of these senses...
...Intellectual thought means decisive thought. And in decisions, emotions are
deeply involved. When you decide – the force of decision takes in emotion, it
is very deeply. Decision is never free from the grip of emotion. Decision is
guided by emotion.
Apparently it may appear that they are guided by logic, but logic is always in
favor of emotions. Always one steps so many steps, but there is 'the cup of
tea'. People say 'He is not my cup of tea'. This is more prevalent in England,
in a more conservative expression. So that 'cup of tea' is very, very
important. It is all localized in emotion.
Decisions are motivated by emotions. They are so involved with one another,
that's why, when one transcends – the whole mechanic
