sparaig wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Flanegin writes snipped:
>>> Are you kidding me?? That it is OK to die of cancer when on the cusp
>>> of enlightenment? Finish the job, for God's sake, and begin enjoying
>>> life as a realized being NOW. Do the job in front of you.
>>>
>>> TomT:
>>> No way to know he was not finished and just living out the rest of his
>>> time. Nisargadata and Ramana Maharishi both went out with cancer. Who
>>> is to know either way and who cares, as Ramana would say. Who is it
>>> that wants to know? Tom
>>>
>> I think that is one problem when one becomes enlightened, they start
>> neglecting the body because they experience no attachment to it. I bet
>> quite a few here who have been meditating for years and have some degree
>> of enlightenment keep trying to remind themselves to look into some
>> medical problem even if it is just a toothache because they only
>> "witness" it and it is not as overwhelming as it would have been before
>> they were meditating.
>>
>>
>
> ???SO much for integration of mind and body...
And thus why you hear about gurus and such (including MMY) getting
sick. I think to propose that people will have perfect health just
because they are enlightened is a bit ludicrous and probably displays a
misunderstanding of what enlightenment is about. I think that one may
have an opportunity to keep their bodies in better shape with
enlightenment like a fine tuned sports car but they may not put their
attention there. I think that would depend on the individual and what
knowledge they already possess such as ayurveda would be a plus.
However Robert Svoboda in one of this books on ayurveda tells a tale of
a major ayurvedic instructor who came down with cancer and one would
have thought that he would have caught it at its earliest symptoms.
