--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Response below. > > Perhaps it's just my lack of "clarity", but you seem to be all over the map > on this issue. > > On the one hand, you berate the gurus who have followings here
I berate the gurus who have actively encouraged such followings. ; on the other hand, you > think the competition is healthy�but only if it develops "from the demand > side", which in > my experience is EXACTLY how it developed. If so, great, and I stand corrected. Various posts to FFL have led me to believe that Amma, for instance, makes periodic visits to Mount Pleasant and that she plans to open a Fairfield Ashram and take retreats there. I must have been mistaken. > > In fact, it is well known among Amma and Punditji devotees that they waited > many years > before raising their profiles here. In other words, the demand side was > thoroughly in place > before the controversy over the public presence of other movements showed up. I have zero problem with people in Fairfield doing whatever they damn-well please, in whatever timeframe. > > As for you contention that you "plainly meant that competitive forces have > the potential to > solve a great many problems that this group expends tremendous energy > complaining > about": I don't see that plainly in your text, nor is it logical, based on > what we see here day > after day, that such a development is even remotely likely. Surely you can agree with me that, if nothing else, even if the local Movement simply will not budge an inch in the face of competitive forces, such a position will lead to eventual implosion, and that that would be a good thing. Market forces will force Maharishi's ashram to adapt or perish (or both), though it is hard to say how long either will take to happen. You are right, btw, in your mention elsewhere that death threats against Amma are a crime, both legally and morally. There is absolutely no justification for such actions, and MUM should publically condemn them. > > L B S To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
