Agreed 100%. If this is how it is, I'm going to start checking in here again every day. Great post!
--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote: > > Thanks for this Mark. Awesome post. > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Mark Landau > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 1:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Sandals > > > > > > Wow, are we one dimensional? I believe it's the sign of a developed being > that he or she can easily hold all the paradoxes. Not only can I have it > both ways, but I must have it both ways and, beyond that, have it all ways > that were, are or ever will be, if I am to do any justice to truth and > reality. That's a lot of ways. I also believe that, ultimately, we must go > beyond all the paradoxes and polarities, including the polarity of good and > bad (and that, of course, doesn't mean that we rush out to do all the "bad" > things we possibly can ASAP). > > > > The truth of the matter, if anyone cares, is that, like Judith Bourke, who I > find to be a wonderful, honest person, I was in love with him (no, prurient > ones, not that way, though there are things I could say about that, too) and > the notion and seeming experience that TM could transform the world for the > better. Why else would I work seven days a week for the movement for nearly > five years and pay significantly to do so? Are we not all some blend of the > three gunas? Aren't there glorious and dark things about all of us? > > > > M was no different. One of the most glorious things about him was his > energy. I lived and basked in it pretty much straight for the seven months > I was skin boy and for a lot of the five years I was with him. I went > through withdrawal for two years when I lost it. > > > > That's my voice in the background of DWTF when David cut to the archival > footage of M entering the hall with Jerry carrying the skin saying something > like, "It was like divine air came down from heaven and I got addicted to > it." Is that so very negative? > > > > In one other sentence I said something like, "Remember how I said he could > get into you and help you sleep? He could also get into you and completely > pulverize you." Is that both "negative" and "positive"? Of course, > one-dimensional believers would say having M pulverize you would be the > greatest blessing. It could only be all positive. But what if he did it > because he was pissed, out of sorts or sexually frustrated? Yes, IME, he > definitely got sexually frustrated. In my total reworking of his own words, > the only man in all of recored history that anyone knew about who lived > beyond the libido was Sukadeva. > > > > I also said in the movie, "It took me a while to put the paradox together. > How could he be wonderful and awful at the same time? Well, that's just how > it was. He was wonderful and awful at the same time." David filmed me for > over two hours and he used the several minutes that suited his purpose in > segueing from the more positive part of the film to the more negative. > > > > So I feel no conflict or contradiction in saying "In my experience, they > still carry a lot of his energy, as if the atoms and molecules have been > entrained in it. And, of course, in India, they would be holy objects to be > revered. I have kept them very well protected and have handled them very > little over the decades." and > > > > M abused women, devastated people right and left and was more concerned with > money than with treating people decently. > > > > They're all simply true. And so were all the other totally glorious aspects > of that intense, complex man. > > > > Was anyone else in the movie theater that night in Fiuggi, or wherever it > was, when M's darshan got so strong that it made all the little, hanging > crystals dance extravagantly and tinkle together as if there were a small > tornado blowing through the hall? And probably only I saw this, but when M > first got to Murren, the three mountain devas came to greet him. IME, which > of course many of you would completely howl at, they had been waiting for > someone for centuries and thought, because of his light, that it might be M. > M went completely silent and looked up at them for several moments while > they communed. He wasn't who they were waiting for, they left and the > lecture went on. And you should have seen the angel stations that > congregated in the intersections of the pathways between the puja tables in > the halls where M made teachers. That's why he didn't like people walking > around then. I had to bust right through one of them to get to him to tell > him something urgent while he was giving out the mantras. The five or six > angels in that one station took off in all directions like they had been > stung. (There, three little stories...) > > > > For me, the truth holds a higher priority than rules about the truth or any > rules that are more about control than the highest good. Perhaps I am wrong > about that. Do my circumstances prove that, one way or another? I think > not. In the actual words of the man himself, "Karma is unfathomable." I do > love some of his sound bites. Another one that would be appropriate here is > "There are no absolutes in the relative." > > > > You're only confused because you're thinking one-dimensionally. When you > move beyond that, try watching my interview in the film again. You may, or > may not, see it slightly differently. > > > > Thank you for eliciting this, > > > > m > > > > On Jul 20, 2011, at 7:28 AM, tedadams108 wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm a little confused. Is this the same Mark Landau who spoke such unkind > words about Maharishi in the film "David Wants To Fly."? When attempting to > sell Maharishi's sandals there are no unkind words spoken, only glorifying > words, probably as an attempt to increase the marketability of the sandals. > I have compassion for Mark that he is having financial > challenges in this economy, like so many others. Apparently his > involvement with Maharishi did not result in financial well being > as it did for so many others (John Gray, Barbara DeAngeles, Deepak Chopra, > etc., and the many wealthy meditators living in Fairfield and around the > world. Maybe it's more difficult to get Nature Support when one cavils about > the Master. I'm sure someone would > appreciate having the sandals and would be willing to pay something > for them. My guess is that the only value to Mark would be for firewood. > > > > > > _____ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3776 - Release Date: 07/20/11 >
