--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price <bobpriced@...> wrote: > > Turq, > > I love you man but you have to learn to pace yourself. I have > no doubt you could write crop circles around me but one thing > I do know, when I see it, is a dynamite value proposition. > And MZ's has one, in spades. Granted, he did play pool with > the Cincinnati Kid and get his head handed to him but that > just adds to his mystique. And yes I would hate to give up > his base, that's something our former President could teach > our current Commander and Chief a thing or two about. But I > think MZ has what it takes to go solo. But to paraphrase you > "why the hell would we".
I guess I have a thing about people piggybacking off the name and fame of others. It rankled when Maharishi did it with the Beatles and with Merv Griffin, and it rankles when people do it with him. I once wrote a book about a former spiritual teacher. I did it because I'd said I would, and not having done it kinda felt like a monkey on my back. So I did it, trying my best to have fun with the whole project, and I even found a literary agent who was willing to shop it around. And then she told me that she managed to place it with one of her publisher clients, but that I'd have to do the book tour thang and talk about the teacher in question, I thanked her for her efforts and bailed. The whole point of writing it was to get the monkey OFF of my back, not to go on tour with it. :-) To some extent, the *entire spiritual tradition* is built on piggybacking off of someone else's name and fame. The word "lineage" springs to mind, as does the phrase "holy tradition." New teachers appear on the scene, piggybacking off of the name and fame of their teachers. Endless spiritual students piggybacking off of endless spiritual teachers. Some would say that this is just the way that things are done in the spiritual biz, and they're right about that. But that doesn't make it any less lazy. I just long for someone who's got enough going for them to go out into the spiritual marketplace and never fuckin' mention their spiritual CV, and the people they've studied with (or claim to have surpassed). Wouldn't that be refreshing? Wouldn't it be interesting to watch someone walk into a room and give a talk without once having to cite some authority or former teacher to "back up" or "validate" or "certify" what they say? > I have to apologize for the orphan "litle humour" I left at > the end of my last post. I didn't mean to. I'm fairly advanced > in years so I leave little post it notes at the bottom on my > communications to remind me of subjects I may want to cover. > What I wanted to say was "One of the ideas I haven't seen > covered on FFL yet is a "little humour", sorry about that. No problemo. Orphans need love, too. Sometimes they sneak into places where they don't belong, just to get a little attention. :-)
