From: David Hooper <davehooper...@gmail.com> 7/27/14-Maharishi: At what age do we actually stop listening to what our parents tell us to do?
"QUESTION: At what age if at any age do we as parents stop telling our children what to do and do we as sons and daughters actually stop listening to what our parents tell us to do." MAHARISHI: "Good sons and daughters always, even if they are sixty or eighty, sit with their parents and talk to them and take their advice and always benefit from their advice. Always. Whatever the son has grown to be, even if the son has become very highly educated and has become the president of the state, leaving behind all his activities he would come and sit with his mother, ninety year old mother, and chat with her. And the mother will sometimes say one word here and one word there. All the advisers of the state give him all kinds of specialized knowledge, but from mother he receives some specialized kind of knowledge. This is one department where he can benefit from the experience of ninety years of living. And one word from mother could be so helpful for the whole nation because of the advice that a ninety-year-old person can give to someone who she thinks is a part of her life, someone she's proud of. She would like to give him some advice, and the son just blooms. This is the relationship [of sons and daughters] to mother and father. So one's whole age is there to learn something from one's father and mother. To learn. It's not [knowledge] of any special subject of geography or physics, but it's the impulse of life one receives from the mother and father. It's the impulse of life. They may be talking about something which may be completely irrelevant to your field of interest, but sometimes they are quiet and silent. That silence is full of love which your heart can only be nourished by. It can only get life from that silence just by sitting with them. It's a very, very enriching experience of life at every age, at all ages." ~Maharishi~ ~Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA -- August 9, 1970~ ~"Culturing the Nervous System to Live Silence in the Midst of the Dynamism of Daily Life, Part 3" (Videotape)~ * * * * * * * TM Media Alert (USA): "Ringo Starr, David Lynch Talk Meditation" (1 1/2 minute video)-- aplatestnews.com -- July 25, 2014 http://www.aplatestnews.com/usnewsvideo.php?idx=ringo-starr-david-lynch-talk-meditation-2014-07-25&vidtype=1 Jai Guru Dev To subscribe, send a reply with "subscribe" entered as the subject or message; to unsubscribe, send a reply with "unsubscribe" entered as the subject or message. -- David Hooper 1000 Purusha Place, Suite 219 Romney, WV 26757
