On Jul 10, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of authfriend > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 9:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Robes of Silk, Feet of Clay/Judith Bourque > > I could certainly be wrong, but I'm guessing he was very > careful as to what he said about his sexual status, > allowing folks to *assume* things that weren't the case > without telling outright falsehoods. > > Not true. At Poland Spring (July 1970), in the midst of MMY’s “sexual phase” > a guy named Michelangelo Salcedo got up to the mic and told MMY he was > interested in the sexual revolution. MMY cut him short, saying that he was a > monk, it wasn’t his field, and he didn’t know anything about it. > That's funny, one of the interesting things I've found in my own experience with celibate yogis, was that despite their own celibacy, their mastery of yoga made them experts at handling sexual energy. Consequently sexually active folks would often approach them for questions about sexuality, and they could give expert advice that was very satisfying -- really the opposite of what one would expect. There was no uptightness about the sex act, just a sense of openness and deep understanding.
So it's interesting to hear Mahesh quoted as saying 'he didn't know anything about it'. Indeed.
