--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote:
> >
> > > On Behalf Of TurquoiseB
> > >
> > > Some of us prefer to live our own lives,
> > the way we choose to live them.
> >
> > I wish you well with living yours the way
> > other people tell you to live it.
> >
> > "I'm the one who's gotta die when it's time for me to die.
> > So let me live my life the way I want to."
> > - Jimi Hendrix - Axis, Bold as Love
>
>
> Exactly.
>
> Why I brought it up is that I have been noticing
> lately the number of people like John (jr_esq)
> who have been brainwashed to believe certain
> things for so long that they no longer seem to
> know they *are* brainwashed.
>
> For example, "Needing a guru." There seems to be
> no question that John accepts this as a "given"
> about life. He speaks often on this forum about
> how he feels everyone should live their life
> according to the things said in the "vedic
> literature," and according to people like
> Maharishi who claim to "represent" this "vedic
> literature."
>
> What he never seems to realize is that he is
> describing a life of slavery.
>
> He is describing as "ideal" a life in which
> people have been as convinced as he seems to
> be that they should "obey" the writings of a
> bunch of people who lived thousands of years
> ago, as if they were "authorities" or "gurus."
> He is describing as "ideal" a life in which
> one assumes that one's "guru" is by definition
> "correct" or "true" and thus does exactly what
> that "guru" tells them to do. He is describing
> a life in which he assumes that he does NOT
> know enough to live on his own, and that he
> NEEDS someone else to tell him what to think
> and what to believe and what to do and not do.
>
> He is describing himself as a slave.
>
> I am sure that John has convinced himself that
> doing this is a kind of "freedom" -- "freedom
> from the ego." He LIKES being told what to do
> and what to believe; it takes all the pressure
> off of him and eliminates the need to do any
> thinking of his own.
>
> It's like the credo of the "guru followers" is,
> "Why think for yourself when someone has already
> done all the hard thinking for us? Just do what
> they say and we will be OK."
>
> If that lifestyle and belief system makes him
> and people like him happy, so be it. Me, I'm
> never going to buy into the lifestyle of
> spiritual slavery ever again.
>
Thinking isn't for everyone- causes fear.
