--- In [email protected], "Ingegerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my friends has been meditating for about 30 years. He wanted > to be a TM-Teacher in the 70ths and worked as staff in Seelisberg to > accomplish that. His brother went over to another Organisation as a > meditation-teacher. My friend was sent home from Seelisberg in > disgrace because of that - and was denied to be a TM-Teacher and a > Sidha.
In one sense, hearing stories like this is a bit liberating, because you can't even resent the idiots who did this or have any ill wishes towards them. Any ill-wishing would be completely redundant and useless. To be able to think like this, and justify this kind of action, the people responsible *already* have to live in basically the lowest state of attention possible. To be angry at them or wish them ill (even though they might deserve it) would be like hoping for bad things to happen to someone who is already a resident of the lowest circle of Hell. In a Tibetan text I have somewhere in storage, there is an interesting passage. It says that the worst possible karma that a human being could incur -- the WORST action that a being could possibly perform, in any incarnation -- is to deny another being access to enlight- enment when it is in your power to grant it. Thus, interestingly, "excommunication" from a path that espouses enlightenment is worse for the person doing the excommunicating than it is for the person who is being theoretically "cut off." According to this text, the person who has been driven out of the ashram could simply find another ashram and another teacher, and thus regain access to the path. But the person or persons who drove him out could spend thousands of lifetimes lost and *really* cut off from liberation. Unc 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/
