The big El is elusive because it is hiding everywhere and in plain sight all at the same time. Because it looks exactly like what you see, touch, taste, hear, and feel, it disguises itself as everyday life. If everyday life is somehow not completely fulfilling, one may be tempted to look for something special to take you away from the humdrum. This is where the Guru comes in.
The Guru is a guy with used plastic bottles, having filled them up at a public water fountain. You come by that fountain, thirsty to get a drink, but the Guru says, 'don't drink from that, drink from these special bottles, here is what you are really looking for....' ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Fascinating article: http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/5889/the-rush-to-solve-grand-theft-auto-vs-biggest-mystery/ http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/5889/the-rush-to-solve-grand-theft-auto-vs-biggest-mystery/ It's made me think that TB TMers who want to reach the maximum number of potential meditators with their message shouldn't be giving intro lectures; they should be busy writing computer games. EAFS could be a big hit. On the lower levels, as with any computer game, you just have to run around collecting tokens for a long time. You need the tokens to buy admittance to the residence courses and advanced teachings where the real action is. What entices you to go through all of this are the glowing auras surrounding the avatars of fellow players who have made it to that level -- TM teacher, or Governor of the Age of Enlightenment, or <gawd help us> Raja. Their avatars have more style than Ron Burgundy...who *wouldn't* want that? And as you progress in the game, gather your tokens, and use them to buy more courses and thus more aura, you start to notice the easter eggs dropped all along the way. The easter eggs all hint at something *more* than just a cool aura...they hint at Enlightenment Itself. You just *know* that EI is way cool, because so few fellow players seem to have attained that level. So you keep pursuing the game even after reaching the TM teacher, Governor, or Raja level, because the big EI is still out there, beckoning. Sects and splinter groups and cliques arise, as players who claim to have attained EI set up shop and tell other players how to attain EIness the way they have. And the whole time, the big EI remains as elusive and as it was when you first started playing. It's the perfect computer game, the kind people play for whole lifetimes...
