I don't care how he lived his life, as he never told me how to live mine. As for your friend, maybe he needs more sex, as focused on it as he is. I bet after a wild romp, he won't care about his "burning question" so much.
--- In [email protected], Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > OK, in keeping with Buck's theory of FFL posts being in some way about FFL, I > have an offering, based on the tenuous fact of past habitation in FF and at > the mighty Maharishi U. > > I have a friend who is a dedicated TM meditator (sidha actually) whom I met > at my local TM center here almost 40 years ago. We worked together on staff > for the team of governors who taught the sidhis here in both North and South > Carolina yea those many years ago. > > > This friend is not only a devout TM meditator, but a devout Christian with > strong Christian values. Over the course of these past few years he has been > wrestling with the idea of Maharishi having allegedly had sex and lying about > it to both cover and continue the behavior. > > > For this friend, these allegations are sort of a lynchpin to his whole > feeling about TM. He has been very surprised to talk with sidhas and > especially governors who were around Maharishi and have become convinced he > was sexually active, but don't seem to care, feeling that TM itself and > whatever they personally experienced was more important than his being able > to lie and sexually manipulate women. > > For myself, the sexual content of M's life is just symptomatic of a systemic > problem - he wanted to have certain things (sex, money, to be looked on as > the savior of the world) and to get those things he had to create a persona > of a spiritual leader (easy to do since he had so much charisma) and lie to > get what he wanted, with a desire to see people improve them selves and the > world as a background. > > > Personally, I believe that that background got forgotten about and pushed > really into the background more and more as the years went by and his self > aggrandizing hedonistic behavior took over more and more. > > > My friend on the other hand still has the idea that Maharishi was > enlightened, and that since the definition M gave of enlightenment in many > places such as the commentary on the Bhagavad Gita is very specific as to the > enlightened person upholding all the laws of nature for everyone, never does > anything that is not life supporting for anyone etc, that it would have been > impossible for Maharishi to sneak around doing things that were unethical and > lie about it. > > So for him, the sexual allegations are paramount, if he decides that M was > sexually active and lying about it, it calls into question the whole teaching > because it means M was not enlightened and therefore could not have known by > experience what enlightenment is. > > My question to everyone who cares to answer is how do you or did you deal > with the idea of Maharishi having sex and lying about it? Do you think he > did, and it doesn't matter or what? > > For me, I do believe it and it was just part of what became an increasingly > deceptive lifestyle he led, and doesn't have the huge implications on the > teaching of enlightenment that it does for my friend. I am of the opinion > that one can have theoretical knowledge of the idea of and process of > enlightenment and even teach about it, but not experience it oneself. > > > So how did any of you process these allegations that Maharishi was sexually > active? >
