--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > Maharishi pandered to this desire to "know." The quote > of his I find most telling is, "Every question is the > perfect opportunity for the answer we have already > prepared." Some people *settle* for "pat answers." > They *revel* in them. Believing that the pat answers > are actually true makes them feel elite, and that they > "know" things that others don't. The pat answers > alleviate for them the need to think for themselves; > all they have to do to be content in life is to believe > them, and parrot them to others in an attempt to get > these others to believe them, too.
This is such a gross distortion of what MMY meant by what he said in that quote. <snip> > The person you'd get along with best here is no longer > posting, Curtis. He seems to have decided that he has > more important things in life to do than to serve as a > punching bag for those who have a need to "prove" the > things they "know," all while putting him down for > *not* "knowing" them as well as they do. Actually this isn't the main reason Curtis was experiencing such friction here. It was because of how he treated people and because of a serious lack of integrity in the way he argued when he had disagreements. He could be at least as dogmatic about what he believed as anybody else here. Similarly, Barry encounters friction not because of his beliefs and disagreements but because he's such a sloppy thinker, because he is unable to state what he thinks without arrogantly putting down those who disagree, because he so often gets his facts wrong and doesn't *care* that he does, and because he's consistently dishonest. > Curtis has managed to emerge from the TM cult with his > sense of Wonder intact. As have you. I respect that. > Others here only resent it. You'll see. Keep asking > probing questions, as if the ones repeating the pat > answers they've been taught to parrot as if they "knew" > them maybe...uh...don't. Sooner or later their sense > of certainty will be turned against you, and will > reveal itself as what it really is -- fear. Again, Barry *knows* what will happen if Sal keeps asking questions, and he knows *why* it will happen. Not the least bit of uncertainty in his declarations. His pose of "not knowing" is just that, a pose he adopts and tries to promote about himself because of his desperate need to feel superior. It's not the reality.
