--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone want to take a stab at this issue. It seems that we are going for both attributes on the path to Self- Realization...Detachment is mentioned on the Buddha literature and dogma, and detachment seems to be a huge part of Maharishi's teaching; namely the witnessing aspect of CC, and the ego's collapse. > > While at the same time, many of the world's most powerful teachings, have more to do with compassion; The most basic teachings of Jesus, all are based in love and forgiveness; and examples of many in the church, the Saints, like St. Francis of Assisi, speak to the leaving of wealth and power behind, in exchange for humility and grace. In these branches of spiritual teaching, detachment seems to be from the material world, in exchange for the things of Spirit, compassion, being an essence of this teaching. > > The path that Maharishi seems to be providing, sometimes is regarded as too materialistic, too wealth oriented, too power hungry, and all the rest. All of these feelings could be said to be rooted in detachment and lack of compassion. > > Like Marie Attoinette, in her day, as Queen of France, was detached enough to not know of the people's plight, and was so isolated from reality, that her fate is well known. > > Like that, how is detachment and compassion, related?
What MMY talks about is *nonattachment*, not *detachment*. "Detachment" of the Marie Antoinette type is psychological; *nonattachment* is a function of development of consciousness, in MMY's teaching. What one becomes "nonattached" to is the illusion of the individual self; one begins to identify instead with the universal Self as one's most essential nature. When one is no longer focused on one's own individual needs, one becomes free to devote one's attention to the needs of others. 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/
