Beautiful speech by Krishnamurti. Thanks for posting it. a
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From: dhamiltony2k5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2008 5:31:36 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Practice Since Blake
--- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, "dhamiltony2k5"
<dhamiltony2k5@ ...> wrote:
>
> Spiritual Practice Since Blake:
> A lot of spiritual practice has gone on since Blake & it has
> continued or ended in various ways not absolutely stale,
> authoritarian and rigid. There has been a progression which is in
> the American experience with it.
> According to William Blake, movements always end like this--stale,
authoritarian, rigid.
Differently, an exact opposite of this kind of stale doctrinal fate
like of the TMmovement could be:
-J.Krishnamurti, 1929 Speech Dissolving his organization, post 7513
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/FairfieldL ife/message/ 7513
>
>
> For example, Yogananda's group SRF now seems to have survived the
> death of their guru. They do have enduring active spiritual
practice
> communities facilitating that work. Again last summer they
gathered
> for an annual week `convocation' near LA for about 10 days of long
> group meditations with about 4000 people. In their communities
they
> do regular long powerful group meditations as part of their ongoing
> spiritual practice.
>
> By a same kind of coin as with TM, it could be as easy to say that
so
> much of the `positivity' of late that the TMorg points to as
evidence
> is actually due to the SRF 4000 meditators in practice together
last
> summer. The powerful lasting influence of a larger n=squared
number
> by contrast. After all, exponentially 4000 powerful SRFmeditators
> sitting in practice is a lot more strong than 1700 sleeping TM-
sidhas
> in recline in group. Sit with the shakti of a SRF group
meditation
> if you have not, to judge it. They got shakti that is alive in a
way
> that by contrast the TMmovement group meditations are only a
forlorn
> disheartened hope over what could have been with their movement.
> -Doug in FF
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Angela Mailander
> <mailander111@ > wrote:
> >
> > According to William Blake, movements always end like this--
stale,
> authoritarian, rigid. They begin with fiery spirit and end in
> ashes.
>
> >He describes the process in some detail and at great depth in
> >his "Book of Urizen," which I read when I first got my children
> >involved with TM, and I thought, hmm, here's a test case, and it
has
> been amazing to see how it went down exactly like the man said it
> would.
>
> >So, perhaps, there is no need to speak of failure. Instead, we
can
> realize that this is the natural process for any movement. This
does
> not mean that there is anything wrong with the technique.
> >
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure
> Essay
> >
>
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