seemed at first to be a very peculiar story. Then I was reminded of Yogananda's Guru striking him on the chest to provide him with an experience of higher consciousness.
I doubt as the original writer of this story seemed to imply that Maharishi was advocating striking the vendor to cause alarm or pain, but perhaps to wake up the vendor to the fact that in front of him/her was a being similar to them, and not a conceptualized foreigner (who on principle they would never haggle with because all foreigners are rich, or dumb, or jerks, or whatever). Perhaps similar to why we shake hands, to break through the conceptual or purely mental, into the experiential. --- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree. A story like this you take with several grains of salt, but it still makes for an interesting story and also expands your boundaries regarding negotiation with vendors > > sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:snip > Yes, but the advice to hit someone would only make sense if vendors > had a known reaction to being hit during haggling, or if MMY had some > mystical intuition that hitting was the best thing to do in this case. > > I'm somewhat doubting the story simply because MMY usually does > things out of the ordinary for some practical reason, even if I don't > agree with the reasoning OR the hoped-for outcome. Yelling at lazy > workmen is a time-honored tradition in most cultures. Hitting a > vendor doesn't seem to be, but perhaps I'm wrong. 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/
