[snip] Ruth wrote: > I do not believe that enlightenment is life > without pain. Instead, maybe just maybe, > you realize that there is no love without > pain and that pain is OK. > Maybe so, Ruth, but I was talking about mental anguish, not physical pain. I was talking about how the practice of plain old TM could relieve the effects of mental stress. TM provides the ideal opportunity to relax and unstress.
> The greatest flaw of MMY appears to me to > be his lack of empathy. Don't know much about 'MMY' and his empathy, or lack of it, since hobody has seen him for years. - maybe you're projecting. > > There's no medical definition of 'stress'. > > > > All these apparent maladies can be corrected > > and erased by *dispelling* the illusion of an > > individual *soul-monad*. When you realize this, > > all discontent and mental suffering come to an > > end, you are liberated: you know that you are > > free and immortal. You don't have to be reborn > > or come back anymore.
