--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so is Maharishi Mahesh Yogi your Master or not? > If so, you are being rebellious. > If not, what's the problem? Who else is telling you what to do?
There seems to be a big assumption in your discussions of 'Master,' namely that one must or should do what he/she says. Because that myth is so pervasive, I never use the word 'Master' to describe a teacher. To me, a teacher just teaches. As in the Buddha quote on the FFL home page, it is up to the student to weigh the teachings against his or her own experience and intuition and decide which have value and which do not. I know that there are many who would not agree with this, and feel that if they choose the path of devotion they should do everything the teacher says unquestioningly. And this is fine, as a matter of personal choice. But in my travels, I haven't really run into terribly many people who had serious enlightenment experiences of their own by following such a path, whereas I have run into quite a few who have had such experiences by being rebels. Unc I do not choose to follow in the footsteps of the men of old. I seek what they sought. - Basho 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/
