".. So, why and what is this need
> that some, all, a few, including moi, struggle with?
> -Peter
Good questions Peter, made especially sincere by including yourself in
the mix.
Here�s one version. I am of the generation becoming aware of eastern
thought, embodied so richly by MMY, in the mid to late 60�s. I was
young, curious and born with an innate feeling for something larger
than the world I was given. I read Christopher Isherwood like a
starved castaway and spent long periods of time effortlessly alone. I
searched alone, outside the violent world that made up my life. I
looked for a way to understand. When finally beginning the practice of
TM I was ripe for transformation.
In the years that followed I moved on a course of action probably not
unlike many here. It was in these years, and under these unusual
circumstances, that the root growth of a deeply expansive spiritual
life took hold. As my life filled with exotic thoughts and locations,
the unbridled sense of purpose we all had for spiritually rebuilding
our world began. This seamless wedding of purpose and identity feel
upon one life, mine, in such a way as to become the content of the
very soul inside.
Now, decades later, with the roots still intact, that which grew as a
result feels a kind of spiritual sorrow. For those born without the
economic or genetic endowment necessary to pursue an advanced degree,
or cultivate alternative relationships that might make understanding
this sorrow easier, we spin tales. We read about the lives and
thoughts of others, hoping perhaps to catch a glimpse of how others
have made a similar peace. For some, we think, we work and we live in
the echo of a wondrous time.
The richness of those early years I�m afraid will remain at my side
for a lifetime. Nothing from that time do I regret, certainly nothing
I would do differently. In fact I would do it all over again. The day
of initiation lives in my heart as though it had just happened.
Perhaps it is the same for you... as you were there with me.
I hope this is of some
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