"Take what you need and leave the rest." Profound question, profound answer.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of wvansant111 > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:19 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Do you still practice TM but not believe in MMY? > > > > I've just finished reading a lot of the information on tm-free blog. my > head it sort of reeling of course. I've had mixed feelings about TMO > and Maharishi in general, but I have believed in the benefits of TM. If > I put everything else aside - just the fact that I quit smoking, > drinking and drugs afterwards was a pretty dramatic change. I had a > highly addictive personality and was very set in my ways. No adults > could get through to me. I had flunked out of school pre-TM. After I > started doing TM, I went back to school and graduated cum laude. > However, I would agree that meditating in large doses made me spaced > out and dysfunctional. > > I'm just wondering in any of you believe that MMY was fraud but still > value his practice. Paul Mason said he is still pro-TM which is hard to > believe considering the information on his website. > > Any thoughts welcome. > > My situation is similar to yours. Drugs, HS dropout, dramatic turnaround > after learning TM. I still practice a modified form of it (different mantra) > with perfect regularity. "Believing" in MMY is a subtler question. I spent a > lot of time around him. He was a remarkable man. His darshan (spiritual > energy) was profound. I used to think he was flawless and that his every > pronouncement was absolute truth. I no longer do, but that doesn't mean I > now regard him as nothing more than a little Indian guy who decided to grow > a beard, wear a dhoti, and pose as a guru. He was a mixed bag. His > formulation of a simple, easy-to-learn, effective meditation technique was a > stroke of genius. Take what you need and leave the rest. > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.0/1268 - Release Date: 2/9/2008 > 11:54 AM >
