--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > --- On Wed, 7/2/08, sparaig <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > > > Tony Abu-Nader spends most of his time meditating on the > > > Pursha team, I believe. Bevan and Hagelin both are doing > > > what their guru told them was the right thing for them to do. > > > > A guru never tells you what to do. That would serve no purpose > > whatsoever. A guru facilitates your liberation. > > I completely agree. > > And, interestingly, so did Maharishi. Once upon a time. > > The first time I ever saw him, at the Greek Theater in > L.A. in 1967, someone in the audience asked Maharishi > what he should do about a problem. > > Maharishi's answer (paraphrased, of course, but later > repeated on both of the Squaw Valley courses I attended > with him)
Two Squaw Valley Courses with MMY? August of 1968. When was the second? The next SV course AFIR was summer 1969 with Sattynad, not MMY. Summer 1970 the big Humbolt courses started. And August of 67, MMY was busy with the Beatles. as, "I never tell a student what to do or > how to handle a particular situation in his life. To do > that would make him *weaker*, not stronger, because the > *next* time some problem came up, he would be expecting > me to tell him what to do again. The point is to help > him become strong so he can make his *own* decisions." > > Good answer. He should have stuck with it. > > Compare this answer -- and this philosophy of teaching -- > with what Maharishi *turned into*, dictating every aspect > of his students' behavior -- on courses and off. > > And, in my opinion, he was correct back in 1067. It just > made them weaker, and unable to make their own decisions. >
