who did Marshy diss?
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On Thu, 10/17/13, TurquoiseB <turquoi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: On Ramana, Yoga and Vedanta
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 6:08 PM
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, the Steinbot
wrote:
>
> FWIW, I find this absolutely hilarious, all the way to
the
> very top (not just you guys), the most exalted
scholarship
> and experience and holiness--and it's the same
damn
> bickering and squabbling as on lowly, ignorant FFL.
I will reply to this, because for once I agree with Judy.
:-)
I've told this story before, but it's apropos, so
I'll tell it
again. Back in the day, in Boulder, CO, a bunch of folks
organized what they called "Holy Man Jams." They
would invite supposed holy men -- ALL of them recog-
nized (at least by their followers) as fully enlightened,
many of them famous within the American spiritual
community -- to appear onstage together and debate/
discuss things.
ALL of these gathering devolved into petty ego arguments
within minutes of them starting. It was a zoo.
I mean, you had guys onstage (mainly guys, with only
a few women, which was more a reflection of the times
than sexism) -- some of them wearing white dhotis, some
of them wearing the ochre robes of Buddhist monks, some
in Western clerical garb, and some in "street
clothes" --
yelling at each other at the top of their lungs over points
of OPINION that each of them claimed they knew the
"truth" about. Blows were occasionally exchanged.
Really.
I've seen the same thing over the years inside
spiritual
orgs, as the teacher-in-charge dissed other
"competing"
teachers and put them down. You *certainly* saw this
with Maharishi.
Bottom line seems to be just as Judy expressed it --
it's
bickering all the way down. What, after all, is the real
difference between a bunch of old women having petty
ego-arguments over personalities on FFL, a bunch of
similarly old men having petty ego-arguments on FFL
about how much they "know" and how little the
other
person "knows," and these supposed "holy
men?"
Where there are people, there are egos. And egos "act
out."
