--- In [email protected], "vashtirama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ---------- > > > From: andrea la fave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:27:06 -0700 (PDT) > > > To: andrea la fave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: News from the TM Front > > > > > > Dear Wisconsin Practitioners of the TM and TM-Sidhi > > > techniques: > > > > > > He also informed us that starting immediately, men > > > only would instruct males and women only would > > > instruct females in the TM Movement. Maybe I?m > > > getting older, but I was thinking along that path > > > lately anyway. I find the women in my heart study are > > > much happier in a meeting without (no offense) the > > > men. I also notice many men are slightly less easy > > > being checked in a private room by a lady. > > > > I find this kind of thinking very irritating. We happen to live in a > > world where > > there are two sexes. What's the matter with these people that the > > presence of > > the opposite sex makes them so uncomfortable? If they can't handle > > it, they > > should go to a monastery or a convent, not make up ridiculous rules > > like this. > > It has introduced some doubt, at that finest feeling level, in the > quality of the TM instruction I originally received, because my > initiator was of a different sex from me. But maybe all male > initiators are, in some subtle way, better, since they were trained > by MMY who is of their same sex.
Stop it! You have introduced some doubt on the level of a superstitous mind. On the level of intellect, thinking, daydreaming, imagining. In my meditation this morning these thoughts are happily left behind and doubts find no stage to play on. What blessed relief. Your practice is only affected today by the events of yesterday to the degree that you make it that way today. The past is the pretext not the cause. Do your practice and enjoy the purity that is as pure today as it was the day that "he" or "she" introduced you to it. When I went to the siddhi flying block of instruction, I first found it a little funny that the men and women were kept separate but as the course progressed I came to see that it was really a very good idea. There were so many distractions that were easily avoided by this simple idea. Rick Carlstrom 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/
