--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > snip > > > > > > > > Maharishi has evolved into pure paradox, > > > > transcending my intellect, > > > > and leaving me as the innocent witness to his > > > > actions. Like a master- > > > > disciple relationship only in the transcendent; > > > > ONLY in the > > > > transcendent. Pure Paradox. > > > > > > Absolutely. You got it! Nothing of value on the > > > surface at all. It's all sentimentality and ego up > > > there, but deep in the heart is that pulse of Brahman > > > that just PULLS you into it and flattens all the > > > bullshit of the personality. Pure Shiva whirling in > > > absolute stillness destroying all boundaries. > > > > And yet I suspect you'd have to admit that this > > is a subjective feeling. > > A polite way of saying "mood making", perhaps? > > And/ or the inner consolidation/condensation of ones own projections > of how the world (and gurus) should be? I mean if one thinks MMY or > whoever is "IT", "THE ONE", won't the mind almost automatically create > a sense of that experience when one sees them? Particularly if it is a > rare event / (always a) special occasion? > > Did the skinboys and inner circle types who were around MMY constantly > experience him as "blazing brahman". > > Could the need to experience a teacher as "blazing brahman" justify > the umpteen years poured into what now apear, at least in part as > trivial and silly projects of his?
Were they trivial and silly to those involved? DId the projects attained the desired goal? How do you know? > > Someone once said that the grandeur of the "described" experience > around the teacher is inversely proportional to ones proximity. > Except that according to Helena Olson, MMY's most favorite person in the clique of Americans hanging around the "Master" in 1959 was her Mother (Mother-in-law?) who didn't take him serioiusly at all and couldn't understand why everyone else did. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Need Help? Get Help! Tools and Strategies for Healthy Drug-Free Living</a>. http://us.click.yahoo.com/wI.OUB/dbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/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/
