--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody know of M's views on keeping pets? I've heard him
say
> that they
> > are a drain. I always thought he meant of some kind of spiritual
> energy, but
> > I'm beginning to believe he actually meant a drain of resources
and
> time,
> > being a distraction from program.
>
> ***********
>
> MMY sits on a deerskin to insulate himself from the energy drain
from
> creatures living at a lower level of life. Charlie Lutes told this
> story many times: MMY was late to a lecture and Charlie had
neglected
> to carry the deerskin from the room to the lecture hall. Charlie
sez,
> I'll go get the skin, but MMY says, never mind, I'll just sit
down --
> he sits, then jumps up immediately, and sez Charlie go get the
skin.
> While Charlie was running up to the room, MMY is just standing,
> nodding welcome to the room of people.
>
> For TMers, handling pets is a drain on energy in the same way that
> ordinary people are a drain on a yogi. Of course, pets can be a
> distraction during TM, but the advice not to handle them is based
on
> this energy drain thing. Because people are fond of pets in many
> cultures, the TMO only says not to meditate with animals, in order
to
> avoid making people think that Fluffy has to go in order to do TM.
>
> Sooner or later, people who continue to do TM will notice the
> draining effect of handling animals, so they'll discontinue the
> practice with or without advice on the issue -- ditto with other
bad
> habits, smoking, etc (because people are stressed and twisted in
> different ways, your mileage may vary, of course, as is obvious
with
> numero uno spokesman David Lynch, who restarted his cigarette
habit
> twenty years after he quit).
>
> There are many energy drain things that the TMO does not bother to
> publicize, but which are part of traditional Vedic culture. For
> instance, in India one is advised not to look at one's own
excrement,
> and sure enough, on those occasions when I do glance at the toilet
> trout, there's a diminution of awareness. Sounds ridiculous to us,
> but just because our idiotic nonsustainable "scientific" culture
does
> not understand how the universe works does not make Vedic culture
> untrue.
>
Well said Bob. I find it hilarious the twisted insane things in
western culture that are taken for granted, even lauded, and then
when these same people living so comfortably in a society with many
bizarre notions are exposed to a different way of looking at the
world, they redicule it and make fun of it. They all deserve white
canes.
