--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --Hmmmm....Sakyamuni Buddha would say "yes you can"...since the
> Lotus Sutra addresses the question of reconciling "the Truth"
> (relative and Absolute Truth) with "what works".
> What works - is the topic of the "Expedient Means" Chapter of the
> Lotus Sutra and basically, the Buddha says to accept what
> Authorities say but in the light of one's own experience: test the
> proposed strategies.
> The Truth - relative and Absolute, is essentially the whole of the
> Lotus Sutra apart from heuristic truths (expedient means) arrived at
> through direct experience. Thus, the title of the Lotus Sutra
> spells it all out: (the Lotus of the True Law Sutra) = Sat - Dharma
> - Pundarika - Sutra)
> Sat = Truth
> Dharma = True Law
> Pundarika = Lotus (Lotus of the True Law, i.e. how Dharma unfolds
> and is expressed in life)
> Sutra - teachings; more broadly, how one gains a door into the
> Teachings through the Guru, the Dharma and the Sangha.
Deep bow. VERY well explained, and in so few words.
> - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander
> <mailander111@> wrote:
> >
> > Really? How do you figure?
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Larry <inmadison@>
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 1:44:31 PM
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Corrections to Dr Chopra's article
> on "The Maharishi Years - the Untold Stor
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> > You can have a manifold relative world that works, or
> you have one
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> > with Truth, but you can't have both
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> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Angela Mailander
> >
> > <mailander111@ ...> wrote:
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> > > Well, we've got at least two versions of the events. This does
> not
> >
> > tell us that either version corresponds to the facts, however.
> >
> > Medical records can be falsified--and I've seen this done on more
> than
> >
> > one occasion. So the medical records would not necessarily tell us
> >
> > the truth either. And if we can see how difficult it is to get at
> the
> >
> > truth in this scenario, then what makes us think the "official"
> >
> > version of history that we learn in school is "true?"
> >
> > >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message ----
> >
> > > From: ruthsimplicity <ruthsimplicity@ ...>
> >
> > > To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com
> >
> > > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 1:20:47 PM
> >
> > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Corrections to Dr Chopra's article on
> >
> > "The Maharishi Years - the Untold Stor
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> > > --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Dick Mays
> >
> > <dickmays@ .> wrote:
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> > > > Please note that Dr G M is an outstanding Indian Governor
> >
> > >
> >
> > > > responsible for single-handedly creating the first group of
> 8,000
> >
> > >
> >
> > > > pundits in India. He is a Maharishi-trained TM-Sidhi
> instructor and
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> > > > teacher of Advanced Techniques.
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> > > > Farrokh & Ruffina
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> > > > Dear Friends:
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> > > > I am an Indian physician who was Maharishiji' s personal
> physician at
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> >
> > > > the time that Dr Deepak Chopra was assisting Maharishiji in
> England,
> >
> > >
> >
> > > > as per his article entitled "The Maharishi Years - the Untold
> Story".
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> > >
> >
> > > > I must inform you that his article is replete with untruths
> and
> >
> > >
> >
> > > > inaccuracies. I was at Maharishiji' s side during the entire
> >
> > >
> >
> > > > incident. Some of the details of the article that I know to be
> >
> > >
> >
> > > > untrue are as follows:
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> > > > there was no blood transfusion from Dr Chopra;
> >
> > >
> >
> > > > Maharishi was not on a ventilator and was not pronounced dead
> as
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> >
> > > claimed;
> >
> > >
> >
> > > > he did not have kidney failure at all at that time;
> >
> > >
> >
> > > > Dr Chopra's father attended Maharishi in India, but not in
> London;
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> > >
> >
> > > > there was no helicopter involved;
> >
> > >
> >
> > > > Dr Chopra did not carry Maharishiji in his arms into the
> hospital.
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> > > > Dr Chopra was handsomely paid for his services by the
> movement.
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> > > > These facts can be corroborated by Prakash and Kirti from the
> Indian
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> > >
> >
> > > > TM movement and Maharishiji' s medical records would bear this
> out as
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> > >
> >
> > > > well. There were two other Indian physicians involved, both of
> whom
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> > >
> >
> > > > were instructed in TM by Farrokh. They can confirm the facts
> as
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> > > > well.
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> >
> > > > Dr G. M.
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> > > It is interesting to watch people writing history. The absence of
> >
> > >
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> > > facts will simply lead to even more speculation. Was there a
> >
> > >
> >
> > > poisoning or evidence of poisoning? Why London? If not kidney
> failure
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> > >
> >
> > > "at that time" when did he have kidney failure? What year? What
> kind
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> >
> > > of recovery? Etc.
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> > > Can his silence be interpreted as assent that there was a heart
> attack
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> > > and pancreatitis and that this happened in late 1991?
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> > > He says MMY's medical records would bear this out. I would be
> glad to
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