RE: [FairfieldLife] Re:* in or out

[mark robert]

From: Paul Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:16 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: in or out   I wonder if when it comes down to it, MMY was never really a spiritual type huh? Yeah, he wrote a poem about Love and one about God but when it comes to it, he has always adulated those with money and power. And always wanted power and money and more and more money. I was once looking out an album of MMY's, the record store owner on hearing what I was searching became suddenly suspicious of me. 'Dodgey Geezer! He's a dodgey geezer I reckon!' he confided me. Yet, he had for a teacher one who was loathe even to take power and one who would not accept money. People seem to think Guru Dev and MMY are one continuous concept. I for one completely disagree. -------------------   Paul,   That’s the wonderful thing about capitalism; its power of distribution. If only we all had a dose of such greed for money and power, who knows what all good things we might have mass-distributed to the world? I too can criticize MMY, but a large part of me has to thank him for one of the best things that ever happened to my life: TM ($35 / 1972). If he had not decided to “come out of the woods”, I would most likely never have discovered meditation or experienced such transcending. I would fault MMY more for his UN-capitalistic methods. Greed is only negative when bad methods are employed. Everyone has desires for resources; mammals are resource guzzlers by nature. Desire is all good, and everyone has it; the problems lie in the methods of accomplishment.   Where would we be if all the world’s teachers stayed in the woods? If the world had only produced a Guru Dev and not a MMY, I (for one) would probably be one miserable MFer.   -Mark          To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT 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 the Yahoo! Terms of Service.