curtisdeltablues wrote: > "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? > More likely the latter but then that really didn't work for folks either. ;-)
> > > > > --- 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. >> >> > > > >
