--- In [email protected], "george_deforest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > > If I remember correctly, in his books Deepak was > a proponent of positive thinking as well ... > (M said "if a poor man repeats over and over > I am rich, I am rich, I am rich > that does not make him a rich man") > > Also, M said, "but the mountain doesn't moooove!! > when the faith of the mustard seed moving mountains story > came up ... Uh, I think you misunderstood Maharishi here, George. M's saying "the mountain doesn't move" was his way of demonstrating FALSE or EMPTY faith. Maharishi would be the first to say that the mountain, on command, WILL move if the so-called faith is grounded in the reality of pure consciousness. After all, this is the man who claimed that people could levitate... > > I could be wrong of course, but I always felt > Deepak's writing showed a lack of understanding of > Maharishi's teaching. > I agree with you. He had about 90% of it down and he was really, really good at explaining this 90% to the masses. Indeed, in his own words, Deepak once said about himself: "I have the gift of the gob". And that he did. But he was a bit of a Dauphin; that is, being the annointed one from an early age (the son of a successful doctor and being on the fast track to being one himself), Deepak was always a bit full of himself and perhaps a bit spoiled. And when he came into the Movement he was very much the Dauphin. One thing comes to mind in this regard: someone mentioned on this forum in another posting that in Deepak's method of meditation that he imparts the mantra without doing a puja. If that is correct, it made me think that it probably would have been a beneficial and indeed humbling experience for him if instead of being an "elite" in the TM movement from Day One that he would have, like many of us, been a volunteer at his local TM center. A humble foot soldier, so to speak. I am thinking specifically of being a volunteer as a Flower Boy on initiation day. I think back on the dozens of times I did that on Saturdays at my local center and the profound experiences I had doing it...all from the outside of the initiation rooms, of course. Something "happened" whenever the puja was being done and something "happened" whenever the mantra was being imparted to the initiate. Although I couldn't of course HEAR what was going on I could actually tell what was going on by the change of atmosphere that was SO concrete it convinced me of the power of the whole process and, indeed, served as one of the impetuses to go to TTC. Deepak should have been exposed to stuff like that. And perhaps when he attempted to reproduce the TM 7 steps he would have tried to reproduce the most important part of the whole process!
