on 5/13/05 3:35 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unc posted earlier: >> I'm sorry, but the >> lack of gratitude and simple humanity in the TMO >> is really getting to be too much for me to stomach. >> As much as I like the people here -- in *both* >> lines -- I may have to move on just so as not to >> have to read any more of this stuff. > > Thought about it, decided to stick around.
Good. I'm too busy to write something trying to convince you to, although I was tempted. >There > is much to be learned here. > > I'll admit it...I'm a jaded old fuck sometimes. > But this lady's post really got to me. From my > point of view, she's being fucked over royally, > and her obvious faith is possibly misplaced. But > just as obviously, her faith is intact. Go figure. This is standard Purusha/MD procedure. Always has been. > > So how's it make you folks FEEL? I mean, I bailed > on the TM movement over 25 years ago, and I still > have enough fondness and gratitude for Maharishi > that it makes me feel like shit. So what must it > be doing to those who have hung in there all this > time? How are you handlin' this? Any thoughts? I'm grateful I no longer have to live that sort of life. The worst part of being on Purusha was the begging psychology it put you in. You couldn't walk into a room without evaluating people in terms of their potential for supporting you. It tarnished all my friendships. I realize it's traditional for monks to be supported by householders, but there's something about the way the movement went about it that rubbed me the wrong way. Also, there are, or at least were, guys on Purusha who take LOA's to visit their girlfriends, watch lots of movies in their rooms, etc. Why should that be supported? I think that's been cleaned up a lot though, in recent years. Again the question arises, how much did the Kaplans give them? Will it be used to build or refurbish new digs or create an endowment for them, or has it disappeared? And that list of Movement companies in India that Lludrub posted the other day - how are those funded? Standard bank financing? Or is the thinking over there: "We'll use the money from the West to create these companies, which will multiply the money. Then we'll have more to support pundit projects over here." If that's what's been going on, have the businesses made money or squandered it? Are such things matters of public record? 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/
