--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > Gillam wrote: > > > > > > > View determines fruit, as Vaj quoted a master > > > > as saying. Or as Dana Sawyer says, precept > > > > determines percept. > > > > > > I have to agree. That which one expects seems to > > > color awakening into the unexpected. The experience > > > it what it is, but when it comes to describing or > > > interpreting it, one's previously-established > > > view (carried over from and structured in ignorance) > > > seems to become the default. > > > > That said, I don't much hear Jim and Tom and Peter > > and such lot talking in Maharishi's idioms. For example, > > this whole notion of losing a personal self was totally > > absent from any understanding I ever had of the Science > > of Creative Intelligence.
Yep. I actually know a lot of Maharishi's expressions but try to put things in the way I experience them. Period. Does that end up inadvertently mimicking someone else's explanations or language? I suppose so...Gotta start somewhere, and not be overly concerned about the consequences... > > Yes, their languange and conceptual frameworks appear to be directly > out the books they read and satsangs they attended (off the program > ??), such as Ramana, Papaji, etc .. and a good dash of new-agism. > > Of course Rory, a former book store owner, read far more bboks so look > for more varied concepts and language. And charter Theopsophy book > club member. > > > > > > So it's the same old story - on the one hand, > > on the other hand. Jaimini cricket. > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/YbEMxA/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/