--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> 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 mechanics involves the whole value
of life. And because it involves everything, it develops everything, enriches
every aspect of life. That's why we say the holistic value of life is gained
through TM simultaneous development of all aspects of personality.
Simultaneous development of body, mind and soul, if we want to use this
expression.
Otherwise every aspect of life blossoms in fullness. It becomes enriched in
every way. Emotions are a very fine aspect of life...
<snip>
