--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The thing that got me to 'get' Maharishi was the way he spoke; > Being, speaking. If I tried to iron it down, and saddle it up, for > years the meaning of what he said evaded me. I'd get a key phrase > here and there, but most of what he said caused me to transcend so > rapidly that between my states of consciousness shifting all over > the place, I couldn't accurately track what he was saying. Then > slowly as the decades passed, the vessel of my consciousness grew, > so that now I get it; I can listen to him talk, and track it all. > Oftentimes what he will be doing in his speech is bringing out an > initial concept and then expanding and expanding and expanding on > it, until the full conceptual vision is not realized until 30 to 60 > minutes, or several hours in. Quite amazing.
Totally! Experience and Understanding simultaneously. > As for the phwam factor that Barry brings up, Maharishi makes it > very clear that he is solely addressing the Self from the Self by > the Self. If his words are heard in any other way, it leads to > frustration and disavowal, much as several on FFL react > consistently. But if you read and listen carefully to what he is > saying, he does hint rather regularly at the SoC he is addressing. > Not that he minds that the listener may be in another SoC- he just > makes it quite uncomfortable for those who are trying to remain > there, without being at all obvious about it. *lol* Excellent point! And You are reminding me of the absolutely mind-blowing way in this last course he brought up word for word virtually *everything* I had been thinking and saying in my own words over the decades since I had "left" TM and the TMO -- most intensely my verbatim descriptions of Brahman to the administrator who was responsible for my admission to the course last year, and the "collapsing particle" creator/creature experiences I was enjoying so vividly at that moment on the course -- and then going into even more detail about my descriptions and Understandings than I consciously knew. Constantly unfolding infinities of Self-reflection... My Self, His Self, Guru Dev's Self, Shiva's Self, my Self, same, same, same, same .... Over and over, until I realized far deeper Self-recognition than I had dreamed possible. > Perhaps some teachers feel it is important to tune the audience's > SoC to their words. Maharishi has never operated that way to my > knowledge. Hmm... I think that's exactly what he was doing, if only by the principle of total resonance... For him, a kshatriya, you either get it, or you don't. No > problem, and no apologies.:-) *lol* No time, no space, no problem! NEXT! *L*L*L*
