Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: BURGERDAMMERUNG

Wed, 04 May 2005 01:03:33 -0700

Thanks for speaking up Jane. New voices are fun and always appreciated. Lord knows many wish I would become the woodwork. Maybe if you aren't shy you can help fulfill their dreams by deepening the grain so that I don't stand out like a knot. Knots can be beautiful when they blend.
 
I would be considered one of the biggest iconoclasts at this group. Or am I wrong. Anyone? But that shouldn't belie the fact that I have had to go through the whole deprogramming thing, and then the whole refinding myself thing, and then the whole I'm ok thing, as many, as you suggest, will also have to do. 
 
As you say, one feels much more free afterwards. It's hard to change the mindset from one of doing things for the Movement, to doing ones spirituality for oneself. But this is of the essence. We really are doing the spiritual thing for ourselves first primarily, and for others who benefit from our improved nature secondarily.  As is obvious now, there really is no Movement to be doings for any longer anyway. This should provide freedom to those who previously were torn between their own desires and the Movement's rigors.
 
When I left MIU after four years and doing a stint on THP my program was two hours long twice a day. As I couldn't fulfill that time committment I altogether quit meditating, and it took me a few years to realize that I didn't live to fulfill some meditation specification but instead the meditation existed because it was of benefit to me. This turnaround was entirely the start of a new way of thinking about things spiritual for myself. And this realization has helped me to this day. I call it starting where we are.
 
We cannot provide for our customers what we cannot guarentee based on our own spiritual practice lest we become what we rebelled against in the first place. That is, institutionalized ignorance. 
 
I think for us TMers we became the fanatics we were because we had a taste of the divine, or we even sank into the divine, but then that taste was extrapolated into a palette of flavours of which we had no certain knowledge. Or the savour of the additonal flavors just was priced too high. Because we had chocolate we were told that peanut butter was right around the corner, and that in days to come they would be mixed. However, peanut butter never came, and people are being asked now to sell peanut butter cups in gold foils without ever having tried one.
 
TM wasn't supposed to be a faith based thing. All the science was wasted because TMO is a faith based thing now. For what did Keith Wallace spend his whole life pragmatizing, now that the vital objectivity of science has given way to faith and religion?  That's besides the point since if MMY had just gone the traditional religious route in the first place many would have been just as, if not more happy. It's ironic that MMY's longest adherents were those for whom he was a religious figure, and yet now even most of them can't take the crap any longer. The science fronting was part of that present scepticism as it now seems merely Machavellian.
 
Yes, what a waste the Movement has turned out to be. In the sense that it sloughed off it's old skin so many times that we merely see the old wrinkles now and the original beauty is long gone. Only a few see the old beauty in the ugliness. The few for whom love is blind, or those who have been married so long that they couldn't even remotely hope to find a new love again in this lifetime. But the love has gone out of this relationship. It's possible that the love was unrequited right from the start.
 
Unfortunately this wrinkled skin that we find telling, is the skin of Maharishi's own face.  This skin is the fate of all institutions. We actually are lucky to have seen the true face through the initial beauty all in our lifetime.  Other such aging beauties are America. Life on earth, and everything really. 
 
What goes up must come down, all that is built will fall to the ground. Empires come and then they go, so step right up and you guessed it,
 
enjoy the show.
 
I think you all should be applauded for being the parade and not standing on the sidelines.  Here's to that great spirit!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:19 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: BURGERDAMMERUNG

Hey.

I am new in this Group - but have followed you for some time with
great pleasure. A lot of good discussions
I learned TM 45 years ago, became a Governor 30 years ago and was
kicked out of TMO 3 years ago, because I refused to sign an agreement
with the TMO, due to the prices and the focus on money all the time.
So I have been following the TMO almost from the beginning, worked
full-time close to NL. Been pretty much a Fanatic myself, devoted to
MMY. After I was kicked out,I have been initiating openly outside the
TMO sometimes for a little money sometimes for free. That made a lot
of noise from the TMO, with threats, lawyers, you name it. I won -
the TMO lost. I am very happy that I am outside the TMO. I have great
respect for the Veda, Guru Dev and all Real Spiritual Masters, but I
do not want to be associated with the crazy TMO any more.
I am practicing TM and some other techniques through the day, and
feel happy for the first time in many years, free to develop in my
natural way. I do not practice the TM-Sidhi-techniques any more. They
gave me a strong headache after the program and loss of energy.
It takes a lot of courage to let go, but it is worth it. I see a lot
of Governors that are really unhappy, with a lot of problems with
health, money, fear. Even worse now, after the recert. thing.

JGD
Jane




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