--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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. >
Since the goal would be *permanent* enlightenment, rather than merely having "an enlightenment experience," your argument doesn't mean much. MMY chose the "follow the guru's every word and command" path and appears, to me at least, to have done OK. 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/
