--- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > > Are we even close to talking about truth and reconciliation? > > > Alignment? Evidently not. It may be that nothing can happen > > > until MMY is gone, as John Hagelin did say in that public > > > meeting in the Public Library; that then after MMY may be some > > > things can be done to remedy the situation. > > > > Hagelin said that?? Good for him. How did folks > > take that? > > Yes, he did. He offerred it as an attempt to be frank in order to > keep people from entirely turning away... a last hope thought that > there will be a better day. It was a last thought kind of thing > that he gave towards the end of a longer meeting dealing with the FF > meditating community disaffection, that you could see that he tried > out to see how it would go. People of course have been leaving the > TM.org since as they had before.
It continues to seem to me, as I first suggested on alt.m.t some time ago--and as Sparaig has echoed here--that all the current apparent nonsense on MMY's part is nothing more than an attempt to establish a solid core of 100 percent loyal True Believers, however small, to hand over to King Tony when MMY dies. My *guess* is that MMY is well aware that the movement has been in the process of splintering for quite some time, and he's afraid that this would make it very difficult for King Tony to take over. Once he does, however, given that cadre of loyal True Believers, he'll be able to do anything he wants with the movement, knowing they'll go along with it, *including* reaching out to disaffected TMers, discarding silly restrictions and absurd projects, and so on. If King Tony wants to take things in an entirely different direction--one of Truth and Reconciliation, even--he'll be able to do that, whereas he might not if he had to fight factionalism. I may well be dreaming, but this speculation is certainly consistent with Hagelin's and Wallace's current behavior, assuming they know what MMY has in mind, right down to Hagelin's suggesting the possibility of change after MMY's death. It also seems to me that the most sensible thing for us to do is JUST WAIT. If you can't stay in the TMO given the current state of affairs, then leave, but don't make it irrevocable; don't burn your bridges if you can avoid it. There'll be plenty of time to do that after MMY dies if things don't improve under King Tony. Nobody here, as far as I can tell, has much of an idea of who King Tony is and what he'd be capable of on his own. Maybe it's more than some of us expect. That he isn't able to show it while MMY is still alive isn't at all surprising. Or, again, maybe I'm dreaming. But it does appear to me that a lot of folks are looking for premature closure. With such an overwhelmingly major change on the horizon, whose outcome none of us can predict, why not bide our time and withhold judgment? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
