> > "When you are inspired by some great purpose, > some extraordinary project, > all your thoughts break their bonds. > Your mind transcends limitations, > your consciousness expands in every direction, > and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. > Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, > and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far > than you ever dreamed yourself to be." > > -- attributed to Maharishi Patanjali
I think this expresses Maharishi's aproach to culturing those around him. He insprires them to dream and desire something so huge, so big it breaks all their own boundaries and makes their existing desires shrink away. Its not expanding ones ego as some claim. Its creating a desire or dream that is beyond them -- something for the world. Even if the project is not attainable, nor attained, the method is valid I believe. Though, there is a second level to it all: "if a person opens a shop, it is only time before he is a millionaire" -- he used to say. I think this refers to planting seeds of karma, and eventual, not necessarily in this life, they will come to fruition. So, he is killing two birds with one stone: break boundaries and dissolve (wilt) individual desire in his "staff", while planting the seeds for (way) future "oranizational" attainments. While some will see this as "justification" for TMO bizzareness or rationalizing my own attatchments to the TMO, thats their hangup. I have resolved my time with the TMO, don't cling to it, don't need to rationalize it. The above is just an "insight". Take it, or leave it. 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/
