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Jai Guru Dev, Dick Yesterday From: David Hooper <davehooper...@gmail.com> [Note: The following quote was taken from a talk given at the end of a TM Teacher Training Course.] "Now let us see the principle of growth of the heart, how the heart grows. The principle of the growth of heart is in one word: give. In giving, the mother gives to the child, the child gives to the mother. This giving is the formula for the expansion of the heart. Expansion of the heart is in giving. You give more and the heart expands more, and you give more, and you give more, and you give more, and you give more. There is no gift greater than the art of transcending. It immediately opens unboundedness to one's awareness. Giving boundaries is giving small things, and then you give unboundedness and then the heart expands. The more you give, the more the heart expands; the more you give, the more expansion of the heart. You give unboundedness, and the heart expands to unboundedness. So if there is any realistic expansion of the heart, it is in the life of the teacher. No matter what you teach -- mathematics, physics, geography, this, this -- giving of knowledge is the greatest expansion of the heart because knowledge is something which is at the basis of action, behavior, achievement, fulfillment. Knowledge is the seed of fulfillment. So when you give the seed of fulfillment, then you give out the whole potential of the tree of fulfillment. This is true of all teaching. This is million times more true in the teaching of transcending, the art of transcending, because you give unboundedness straight away. Teaching of Transcendental Meditation is such a profound teaching, that you give unboundedness to him without him doing anything for it -- natural, effortless. It's such an expansion of the heart, it's such an expansion of the heart. Huge. Great. There is no other method of expanding the heart more profound or even parallel to this teaching of TM for expansion of the heart, because it's real -- something very, very real. You will see in your procedures, practices, a man comes worried and his face is not even worthy of description. And then you initiate him and next day he comes -- brighter, some light in his face. Then you will know the value of what you have given him. Such an enormous gift! And then, yes, I could give him life. What a great upsurge of beautiful feeling that one never gets anywhere through any performance, through any action, through any behavior. It's so real. Then day-after-day the same waves of expansion -- day-after-day, day-after-day. Even speaking on the social level, this becomes a means for gaining Cosmic Consciousness. Just these waves of expansion of the heart. There is nothing more profound than this: giving the mechanics of infinity, unboundedness, Absolute. Nothing more rewarding." ........to be continued ~Maharishi~ ~Audiotape --1974~ Jai Guru Dev To unsubscribe , send a reply with "unsubscribe" entered as the subject or message -- David Hooper 1000 Purusha Place, Suite 219 Romney, WV 26757 ************************************************************ Today From: David Hooper <davehooper...@gmail.com> "There is nothing more profound than this: giving the mechanics of infinity, unboundedness, Absolute. Nothing more rewarding. You may find people shouting aloud in a room -- ten, twenty people -- some others falling on the ground, some others starting to jump up and down, some sitting and doing like that, like that. You may feel that there is a great emotional upsurge and this is the way to culture the heart, but the whole thing is a fantasy. This is not the real, genuine culture of the heart. It's trying to culture the heart, mood-making. It doesn't result in any genuine upliftment or expansion of the heart. It may appear to be something like that, but when you go into the details of the life of those who are enveloping themselves in this kind of mood, you'll know that the whole thing is very unrealistic. Hearts are not cultured on the level of mood-making. The heart is such a delicate instrument. It needs something real, and if it's not real, it will be shrinking more than expanding. It needs something very, very real and concrete to feel and to swell in its values. It's very difficult to have the heart exposed to deceptions -- [the] intellect maybe through wrong kind of analysis and logic -- but the heart is something very, very real. It needs something real for its existence and for its expansion. Nothing, no mood-making, no trying would ever expand the heart. It'll result in shrinking more, and more, and more, and more. And in this you come out, Transcendental Meditation. It's so real. Its effects are on the physiology; its effects are on sociology; it's effects are on ecology. You have been all together meditating. In this atmosphere you have created such an island of some real, intense happiness. When you will go out into the world, you'll see what a shock at every stage. In these six months you have forgotten what the society is, and when you will face it you will know that, 'I never knew that when I was here, I never knew the world outside was so awful.' But it's fine to be [like] that. This field is so real, and this is what we say, the ecological value of Transcendental Meditation, the atmospheric value -- it purifies the whole environment. That's why we say it's something real. It not only remains in the mind, it penetrates into the body -- effects on body, effects on behavior, effects on the environment. It's so real that it just radiates.This reality alone is capable of expanding the heart to its maximum potential. Everything else is not so effective for the expansion of the heart as teaching of Transcendental Meditation. What sustains me day-after-day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, late nights, early mornings, going on, still able to breathe, [is] this expansion of the heart, this sustenance of more and more energy all the time, every day, day after day, day after day. It's something real. Anything else is not so real as far as the expansion of the heart is concerned. As far as the expansion of the heart is concerned, there is nothing other than teaching Transcendental Meditation. It's a very great procedure for culturing the heart. Equally well [it's] a great procedure for culturing the mind, culturing the intellect, culturing the ego -- ego becomes universal, it just expands to unboundedness. Heart expands, mind expands, vision expands, behavior expands, everything expands. Other things, they may appear to be doing something, but they're just a surface appearance, like a mirage. A mirage looks to be an ocean of water, so beautiful, but you can't take bath in it or satisfy your thirst -- it's just a mirage. Expansion of the heart. There is nothing -- 'nothing' means 'nothing' -- which can compare in its value for the expansion of heart with this expansion of the heart which the teaching of Transcendental Meditation brings about." ~Maharishi~ ~Vittel, France -- 1974~ Jai Guru Dev To unsubscribe , send a reply with "unsubscribe" entered as the subject or message. -- David Hooper 1000 Purusha Place, Suite 219 Romney, WV 26757
