--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <steve.sun...@...> wrote:
> Irmeli, if I am not mistaken, you long ago divorced yourself from the TMO. > So, your admiration seems a little "hollow". I think those who have > committed their lives to this knowledge, likely feel differently. > Externally I have taken distance from TMO long ago, but not internally at the subtle silent domains. > I am grateful that I put distance between me and the TMO many years ago, just > over disconnects like this. But I feel empathy for those who are still "all > in" and have the perception that their annnoited leader is at least as > committed as they are. I think this trust has been compromised. YMMV. If a person feels his trust has been compromised, that feeling of 'betrayal' could be used to a healthy shift away from an attachment to rigid mythical fundamentalist structures. I personally see nothing superior in forever living isolated from the world. In Zen Buddhism 'The Ten Ox Herding Pictures' I perceive to be a description of a healthy spiritual journey. The tenth picture can be understood as a return to the market place having fully intenalized the earlier stages described in those pictures. For those who feel themselves betrayed I would like to make the question: Do you expect someone you have been accepting as your king to be developmentally at the same level as you are?
