Wisdom of George Harrison - Mystic Living in a Material World - Sage of Wall St. Protests

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The Inner Light
------George Harrison

Without going out of my door,
I can know all things on earth
without looking out of my window,
I can know the ways of heaven.

The farther one travels
the less one knows
the less one really knows.

Without going out of your door,
You can know all things on earth
without looking out of your window,
you can know the ways of heaven.

The farther one travels
the less one knows
the less one really knows.

Arrive without travelling,
See all without looking,
Do all without doing.

George Harrison was a wise, happy person because he had compassion for others. George really cared about the world and that fact is reflected in his music and actions. Whereas greedy Wall Street bankers are misers therefore they are miser-able due to a lack of compassion and selfish deeds. That is the essence of wisdom in regards to human nature.


George Harrison - Mystic living in a Material World
The Beatles Discover Meditation

In 1967, George's first wife, Patti Boyd, learned Transcendental Meditation in London while George was away on tour with The Beatles. "I loved meditating and found the effects remarkable," she said. "The benefits are cumulative. It did what it said on the bottle -- it was life-changing. I couldn't wait to tell George."

Beatles aficionados know what happened next. The band returned to London and at Patti's urging attended a Maharishi lecture. They learned meditation and soon embarked on their journey to Maharishi's academy in Rishikesh, India -- where, in spare time between meditating and attending lectures, they created some of the most acclaimed music of their career.

Yet, fewer Beatles enthusiasts know the true story of what happened in Rishikesh, or how the band's continued involvement with meditation impacted their life and music.

George's Transcendental Side

Allusions to transcendence -- the experience gained during meditation when the mind goes beyond thinking to experience pure awareness -- began appearing throughout Harrison's lyrics. One overt example is his faux raga, "The Inner Light:"

Without looking out of your window

You could know the ways of heaven

It was as if the bottom had fallen out of George's younger, boy-wants-girl Beatle songs ("I Need You," "You Like Me Too Much") and the songs were now ballads of spiritual yearning and awakening ("All Things Must Pass," "Let It Roll," "My Sweet Lord").

Scorsese's film underscores Harrison's inner quest, yet deals honestly with his struggle to balance staggering fame and material success with his desire to live a truthful life. Scorsese shows Harrison caught between the spiritual and material, as the former Beatle portrays himself in the title song of his 1973 album "Living In The Material World."

For stability amid the turmoil, Harrison always returned to meditation.

"I still practice Transcendental Meditation," said George in his later years. "Maharishi only ever did good for us, and though I have not been with him physically, I never left him."

During the 1990s, George met again with Maharishi at the international Transcendental Meditation campus in Holland. Shortly thereafter, Harrison performed a benefit concert in London to support Transcendental Meditation and related "consciousness-based" programs throughout the United Kingdom -- his last full concert.
George has an infinite view of cosmic consciousness.

This means that consciousness has no beginning or end.

This means we have had trillions of lifetimes

therefore karma can ripen from previous lifetimes that are 500 thousand

lifetimes ago. There are other ways to purify karma & creativity source

manifestation in nonduality is one of them. However if you let your

nonduality guard down (& we all do) & get dualistic then karma

seeps in. Karma is very difficult to predict-it can be purified
Thinking about life requires courage and a critical point of view. People are afraid of that because, really, thinking about life and what's our role in the universe really is frightening. It makes you crazy, you feel small and empty. That's why the human being created religion. People now can not only avoid thinking about life and universe but also feel big and important. However, they will never get the real point. Life's more than living under the rules of a man in the clouds. Life's bigger.