--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: [...]
> For example, in the TM scheme of things, Cosmic Consciousness seems to be > considered 'realisation', 'liberation'. Now in Zen Buddhism, for example, > this would not be considered liberation, it would be considered a stepping > stone experience toward liberation, but basically one would be considered to > be in a delusional state, because you are identified with the silent state of > being. That you were previously identified with the active state of being, > and are not now, does not free one from delusion. Maharishi referred to CC as "glorified ignorance" because while it was the first permanent higher state of consciousness, it was also the state where separation from self and the rest of the universe was highest. He also referred to it as "merely normal" -what a sufficiently stress-free adult should just spontaneously mature into. L
