I did not get any impression of smugness from the first post - just sharing of a good experience with MMY. As I said before, I think that it is important to touch into your own path - but it is unique to the individual. It is wonderful to hear of progression along a path, whatever it may be. Surely that it what spirituality is about - and I certainly stopped being so involved with TM because of suggestions that meditators etc were somehow better than others. I have met so many people who had experiences of all kinds - including a friend whose spiritual development was prompted by the suicide of her only son (and she was unmarried). Who knows what nature is going to bring us for learning? And polarities do tend to be forced into balance by nature (Jung called it enantiodromia - you go too far into one pole, you get swung back into the other). It is a shame that this person feels that his experience led to such attack that he has to withdraw - my daughter said today after going on a music debate website "it's interesting how American men seem to go on these websites to attack each other". I'm sure it's not an American thing necessarily - we can do it just as much (if not more) in Europe - but it did ring a bell in me after reading these posts.
A totally different matter in this thread is a Guru having sex with a "disciple". That is abuse, pure and simple, because there is an imbalance of power. Haven't a clue whether or not MMY did or did not - if he did then maybe it's because if we've got a body we've also got a personality, which has relative aspects. You can't live wholly in the absolute, and anyone who's had experiences of deep soul relationships with another has probably noticed how it's the personality that trips it up. Because it's through that that we learn in this life. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "guybanner2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celibacy was neccessary for me to break my prior addiction; I was > like an alcoholic who could not just have one drink, since one drink > would trigger back the addiction. So, it had to be all or none, and > I had to choose none, and I was fortunate that MMY was available to > grant me that wish. I never meant to imply that others should be > celibate. And, I have never suggested to anyone that they should be > celibate 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/
