--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 8/6/05 11:29 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >> on 8/6/05 9:09 AM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> [Maharishi's] response [to people who could have exposed him]
was to
> > banish
> >>>> and discredit those responsible. Was that fair to them?
> >>
> >> I was thinking of Rory's response to this ("have you always
been fair to
> >> Maharishi; to yourself?")
> >>
> >> Doesn't this Byron Katie stuff have its limitations? Let's say
someone is a
> >> serial killer and I judge that as wrong. Would you ask, "have
you been a
> >> serial killer? Have you serial killed yourself?"
> >
> > Given some spiritual theories that you are not likely to
> > find your way to self discovery unless you've got about
> > 10,000 incarnations under your belt, it's not out of the
> > question. :-)
>
> OK, but even if I've been one, that still doesn't make it
excusable. I must
> have faced, or should face, the consequences.
Of course. Finding the "serial killer" in yourself will bring that
portion into full consciousness, removing its ability to "run" you
through your unconscious. It will have become integrated, healed,
made whole. You not only will cease entertaining that previously-
denied portion in a non-life-supporting manner; you will probably be
finding yourself consciously atoning for the acts which that denied
portion of yourself had done.
Often, a self-righteous judgement is a clue that we are projecting
some denied portion of Life outside ourselves so we can safely
condemn it. IMO this is what Jesus meant when saying "Judge not,
lest ye be judged." In the deepest sense, when we judge we are
*always* judging ourselves. This keeps perpetuating the karma of dis-
integration, for essentially whatever we judge we later find
ourselves acting out, so we can understand it from the inside.
>Maybe I'm misinterpreting
> Byron Katie. I haven't read her carefully enough.
Yes, she is worth reading carefully.
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