"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."
Then you need to straighten MMY out on this point cuz he uses it in his sales pitch all the time. Perfect health and immortality, or was it perfect wealth and immorality? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sparaig wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> 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. >
