Comment below: --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 5/25/05 11:34 AM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > What struck me was how MMY got caught up in something so > > insignificant and mundane as a group photo and the way it was > > supposed to be framed and the hours spent on it. I just couldn't > > understand it. If, as the Movement and MMY professed, that we were > > out to bring this important technology of TM to the world, how could > > the leader and head of such an organisation find the time to put his > > attention on such minutae? > > There are hundreds of stories like this. It happened every day with > something or other. I found it fascinating to watch him do this, but it used > to puzzle me that he could invest the time in this sort of thing with the > movement as large and busy as it was. But it was charming. As you say, like > a kid playing with a new toy. Or not charming, like Nero fiddling as Rome > burned. Maharishi himself would say that he always needed a new toy to play > with.
*** I've heard (or read, actually) of other saints who would get immersed in the trivial with as much focus, energy, and enthusiasm as the (apparently) more important issues of life. If, from the standpoint of Brahman, everything is as important as everything else (because all appearances only have value relative to other appearances and there is no independent substance or reality to any of them) and, if Maharishi is established in Brahman (which despite the many allegations of behavior that strikes me as puzzling or dissappointing on the level of the relative, is not in any way dispositive that he is not [established in Brahman]), then this type of focussed awareness on whatever is the subject at hand would seem to be a perfectly natural phenomenon. Awareness may stand alone but brought into contact with the relative it becomes attention. If one is living Brahman as one's Awareness then That is what is brought as Attention to the matter at hand, whatever that may be. For many of us who are very engaged in the world it seems that in Maharishi's "management" style there was never any real priority setting. Almost any project became "the" priority project for a time -- generally the time that Maharishi's attention was on it. As soon as he turned his attention elsewhere the former priority faded entirely. Most of us in the West seem very (or relatively) competent at juggling multiple tasks and assigning constantly shifting priorities with appropriate time allocations. Maharishi doesn't. But perhaps it's likely that he was able to accomplish what he has because when he did put his attention on the task at hand he brought Brahman to bear on it. Marek 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/
