I enjoy that expression attributed to the Buddha, "Believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see". Books fall into the first category. Entertaining perhaps and definitely distracting, but at BEST a rough pointer to truth, after crawling somewhat laboriously through the viewpoint of the writer. Living in the moment is infinitely more informative than scribblings on paper.
As mentioned before I have a definite opinion regarding Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his girlfriends. I cannot point to any evidence except my gut. PS I really can't say I do TM anymore, as of about February of this year, though I do think Maharishi lives up to his name big time (aka great seer). --- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@...> wrote: "> > You need to read the book if you want to talk about it. A few people knew of this going on back in the 70's and everyone, everyone kept it quiet. No one wanted it to come out even if true. One, a very smart and devoted person I know, spent about 2 years years and their own money investigating the sex rumors because they had to know before they could go on giving their LIVES to MMY and his organization. Judith refused to discuss it with back then, but there were other women to talk to. Generally they did not want to talk about the sex, altho they were clear it had happened. But when he found out the information and what he thought to be the truth, he quietly left TM, very quietly. Would not say a word, just left. I believe several other people left, quietly, for similar reasons. > > > > I heard of this back in the mid-70's and decided tWhat better way to > > imagine that your guru finds you special. And so I had to be careful about > > believing the rumors. But there is too much smoke around this issue for > > there not to be some sort of fire. Too many different accounts. I have no > > doubt it occurred, none. And I still do TM, and think MMY was pretty great > > in many ways. He made some mistakes. > > One more thing, whynot. You don't need to read the book or even think about > this or come to any conclusion. You can ignore it all and that is fine. And > works well for some people. Might even be better for many. But if you really > are interested in getting to your truth about it all, I think you need more > info. <snip>
