Ramanas cancer

[Guest guest]

Ramanas cancer

 

Here is something from Jack Kronfield's "The Eightfold Path for the

Householder: Ten Talks" [transcribed from audio tape]

Url: http://cedar.evansville.edu/~mb62/errata/8path.htm

It is a whole book, it is better than ACIM, etc. and it is absolutely free.

I highly recommend it.

 

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I remember a very important and extraordinary lesson. I was sitting around

with Robert Hall, whom some of you know, who is a Gestalt therapist and

body worker, and one of the people who started the Lomi School. He spent a

lot of years in his own practice of developing ways of working with the

body, and opening, and energy, and breathing. We were reading a book about

the life of Ramana Maharshi, this great Indian saint. And there were some

pictures of Ramana Maharshi in the last part of his life with cancer, and

his body was contorted and twisted and it looked tight. It certainly

looked like he couldn't breathe very well, it looked like he couldn't move

very well. And the description from the people who were with him was that

he was in pain, and that he would go to sleep, and there would just be

these moans and things that would come out of his body. And at the same

time his eyes were exactly the same as those pictures of five or ten or

twenty years before. They were wide and bright and completely clear, and

there was just this real sense of depth and love. Robert looked at that

and he said, "My God, here I am trying to get people to open their bodies

and it really has nothing to do with it, does it?" That's not completely

true. It is one end of the spectrum, but it is also true that if you

breathe and if you open, and if you run, and if you exercise, that the

physical opening helps the heart and the mind to open. .

 

 

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Lots of Love,

CyberDervish

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