--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: > > > > Didn't get to see the link, but didn't Satya Sai Baba like > > to suck the bad karma out of cute little boys? > > Yes, but he never swallowed.
OK, *this* is the answer to Nabby's and others' oft-asked question: "Why does someone who bailed on the whole Maharishi trip decades ago still hang out here?" This is FUNNY. Funny in a way that only-once-around-the-block spiritual seekers just don't get. There are folks here who have been around the block more than once. And they've ventured into different blocks, different spiritual 'hoods. Doing that loosens one up a bit in my humble opinion, and makes for a higher, funnier quality of conversation. Me, I love Fairfield Life because it is such a *mix* of once-around-the-block-ers and been-there-done-that- wanna-buy-the-T-shirt-so-you-can-say-that-you've- been-there-done-that-too'ers. You get the perspective of those who have never known any other spiritual teacher than Maharishi, and have never known any other spiritual path. I learn much from these people. About their perspective, about how much of it I used to share, and about aspects of it I no longer share. This place simply would not be as interesting without Nabby, or JohnR, or even Off in his "peer review rules" moments. At the same time, this place would not be nearly as interesting without the perspectives of those who have moved on to other formal spiritual teachers and paths. I learn much from them. Or without the perspective of folks like Curtis, who espouses no spiritual path but whose lifestyle I view as far more spiritual than many spiritual seekers' lifestyles, including my own. If you haven't been around the spiritual block more than once, here's a free clue for you. You know how "Shit happens?" Fact of life. Nothing inherently bad or good about shit happening. Shit just happens. Taking a dump doth not connote a Big Scandal. Similarly, in spiritual movements "Sexual scandals happen." This seems to be a phenomenon almost as common as "Shit happening," but seems to get more attention. So why is that? What IS it about sex that makes so many spiritual seekers so uptight? This Nityananda guy just knocked off a piece of nookie. And not just *any* nookie. He managed to hook up with the modern counterpart of a Vedic goddess, a TV or movie star (I've never been able to tell which from the news reports). If this was George Clooney, you wouldn't bat an eyelash. But if it's Nityananda? Or Satya Sai Baba? Or Chogyam Trungpa? Or Maharishi? Or King Tony? I'd really like to have someone who bristles at the thought of one of those dudes other than George Clooney being *guy* enough to knock off a little nookie when he thought no one was looking and who finds that thought shocking, or heretical, or disrespectful in some way to explain to me why you think this. I give all of these guys the ability to be *guys*, and to get stupid every so often about the places they choose to put their dicks. Lord knows I've made some questionable choices in that regard in my life. What about "enlighten- ment" (if you believe that any or all of the aforementioned are/were enlightened) would make any of them less susceptible to such bouts of pheromonal folly than George Clooney?
