Very nicely said. --- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maharishi has been teaching for a long time. Someone had mentioned that there's probably more video footage of him then of any other historical person alive. > > Gurus are those fixtures which stay in the mind and guide us through all our activities. The word guru means heavy. The guru is a heavy fixture in the mind. > > Love the guru or hate him, either way he has assumed a seat in the heart or mind. > > Either way he guides. > > The Dalai Lama is perhaps more well known and generally respected. But most people don't know anything about the Dalai Lama. The reason I know this to be true is because I asked a blind black man from the ghetto if he had heard of the Dalai Lama and he said yes. I asked at what age he had heard of him, and he said, his whole life. Then I asked if he had heard of Maharishi. I had to ask a couple ways and describe Maharishi. Eventually he said that yes he had heard of him, but not his whole life. > > Nowadays, people think the Dalai Lama is the pope of Buddhism, even though that's not reallly an apt description. And people think that Maharishi is the blissful guru that brought meditation to the West. > > I read the posts at Hip Forums which is a mostly young hippie listserv, and many people know of Maharishi as the person who started studies on meditation. Many people who have never learned TM stiill think they are practicing it. Many people who have never seen or heard Maharishi or done TM still have heard of the Maharishi Effect. The idea that a group of meditators being able to create a blissful effect throughout society is a given to many of them. Whether they do the technique or not. > > Having studied Kalachakra of the Dalai Lama and TM and the Sidhis and other Vedic programs of Maharishi, I can certainly say that Maharishi's teachings are more automatic and simple. Maharishi's teachings when put into practice do satisfy the tenets of yogic wisdom, from any school, Buddhist or Hindu. > > Group practice of TM is done to create bliss and coherence in society. This is ipso facto generation of bodhicitta, to use a term from the Vajrayana. > > Whether one has the wisdom to utilize the bliss of TM to create positive karma or not is up to the individual. > > TM, TM-Sidhis, and so on, are not the source of the profoundity of the practice, nor the reality of the practice, nor the goal of the practice. When one eats a plate of food with a fork, the technique of the fork is not the same as the plate of food, not the same as the act of eating, and not the same as the full stomach. > > Maharishi has been often confused with meditation and yoga in general. It's certain that as time passes to the general public he will be more confused with the entire yogic tradition than he is even now. > > More books will come out, and they will applaud him, they will chastise him, people will rally to the left or the right. But those who still do TM, or another of his programs will still eat the bliss of the yogic nature. > > Love him or hate him he will remain in our hearts and minds. Now that's a real guru amongst gurus. > > Dedicated to Maharishi. May He Live Long. And May His Wish of World Peace Be Fulfilled. > > (at the very least can't we have some larger meditation residence courses?)
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