--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Louis: > > I'm curious to know what you feel about Maharishi's attitude towards > African-Americans and Black Africans in general (I use the > term "Black Africans" to differentiate them from White Africans, such > as Charlize Theron). I'm thinking two such instances which gave an > indication to me of Maharishi's thinking in this area: > > 1) in a video tape from La Antilla I think it was Maharishi was asked > about the then-in-place Apartheid system in South Africa and his > response was: (taking a flower in hand) see the flower, see how the > red of the petal is segregated from the stem, see how the thorn is > segregated from the leaves, see how the leaves are segregated from > the stem, (and so on). > > 2) After a trip to Africa, he was relating his experience during a > Question and Answer session he had with Africans who had come to see > him at a lecture law. The thrust of Maharishi's comments were how > surprised he was at the intelligence of the questions. He gave the > impression that it threw him for a loop and that he didn't expect > them to be intelligent at all. > > Thoughts? And I'd like to hear from anyone else who got the same > impressions that I did on this subject...
The only person Maharishi actively sought out from the darshan-line after our TTC was a black american (he was standing in the back of the crowd) saying while handing the fellow a flower: "You are doing very well, uh ?"
