--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 2/4/06 2:17 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> I agree. The enlightened man driving his car makes the decisions > > necessary > >> to navigate successfully through traffic and arrive at his > > destination. Why > >> shouldn't other decisions be just as volitional and just as subject > > to dire > >> consequences if they are made capriciously? > >> > > > > What capriociously? Why would someone's decision-making process be > > capricious if enlightened (and hence not owning the process since it > > is a guna-based thing) but not capricious prior to enlightenment? > > Maybe "spontaneous" would be a better word than "capricious." I've heard > both Maharishi and local enlightened friends say that they're often > surprised by the things they find themselves doing. Maharishi would say "I > was saying such and such in that lecture. There must have been someone who > needed to hear it." Another friend said, "I was going to the post office but > found myself at the coffee shop," implying that something other than an > individuality was in the driver's seat. >
I heard Mark David Chapman say the same thing about an experience he had outside the Dakota one day... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
