--- In [email protected], "claudiouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with the sentiments and logic expressed below. Only MMY > doesn't plan at all - he seems to just react spontaneously to gut > feelings. The plan emerges from one such reaction to another but it > unfolds "unthinkingly". He can't logically justify decisions.
That would certainly be my assessment of the man, given the time I spent around him. I think that he firmly believes in what he has taught us, that at a certain point in one's evolution (CC and above) one's actions become perfectly aligned with the Laws of Nature, and that therefore one can do no harm. One's actions after enlightenment are "100% life-supporting." Sound familiar? "100% life-supporting" is also the description given to TM. As a result, did anyone ever pay any attention to reports of negative physical or emotional reactions to TM? I never saw anyone takes those reports seriously. It was merely *assumed*, since TM *by defintion* could do no harm, that no harm was done. There was a tendency to find some *other* explanation for the Uncontrollable Twitching Group in Fiuggi and other weirdass things that have happened over the years. The paradigm of "can do no harm" and "100% life-supporting" is so universally believed that very few can even *conceive* that TM might be causing negative reactions in a few (very few) individuals. I guess what I'm suggesting is that this paradigm might not be true, either for TM or for the behavior of the enlgihtened. I believe that an enlightened being *can* still fuck up and do harm. I believe that their behavior is NOT "by definition" 100% life-supporting. In my opinion, nothing changes after enlightenment. Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. Or as a good friend in Boulder once paraphrased it for modern monks, "Sport wood and carry condoms." :-) If you believe that you're enlightened, and that *by definition* your actions are 100% life-support- ing, then why should you *have* to logically sup- port your decisions? And if your followers have been taught for decades that the very *definition* of an enlightened teacher precludes any possibility of doing harm, well, they'll let the guy get away with not logically supporting his decisions. Sounds like a fairly symbiotic (or codependent) relationship to me. Unc 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/
