I hear ya Mrfishey, I hear ya!
--- mrfishey2001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> ".. So, why and what is this need
> > that some, all, a few, including moi, struggle
> with?
> > -Peter
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> 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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