--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think one problem is that the TB's believe that MMY > is knowledgable in all things. As if every utterance > he makes is spoken out of the mouth of god. I'm also > sure plenty of people around him doubt, to some > extent, his planning, but instead of being authentic, > which is their dharma, they stifle the very natural > impulse to mention to MMY the impossibility of his > schemes in the Western world.
Interesting that you should bring up the issue of dharma here. Keeping silent while a teacher does something you know is wrong is, according to most teachings I've encountered, *against* the dharma, not following it. Thus the students who remain silent in the face of such actions invoke a set of karmas that not only allow the teacher to continue acting from a low state of consciousness, but in the process lower their own state of consciousness to that level or lower. And it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. Once the cycle of denial of wrongdoing and blind support for wrong action has begun within a spiritual organization, it's really, really difficult to turn it around. > But, then again, MMY has > created this environment of artificiality and > mood-making around him. Yes he has. Having spread the myth that the enlightened are incapable of wrong action, and having created an environment in which students were encouraged to think of him as enlightened, he pretty much *had* to create another environ- ment in which doubt was considered "off the program" and in which criticism of the teacher was "just cause" for being kicked out of the study. It's a classic model of what happens when a teacher who isn't ready to teach is allowed to do so anyway. > Quite the shame. Do they even > have a business plan for this bond-scam? It's > ridiculous and will work as well as the pundit groups, > world peace palaces and all the other ridiculous > business plans....nada... On the other hand, this one has the potential of pulling back the curtain and revealing the man behind the curtain, big-time. All it would take to "blow the whistle" on the *real* nature of the TM movement and its insane pursuit of money woould be for one person to "invest" a million Euros and then, one year later to the day, ask for the 1,150,000 Euros that were promised to him. If the TMO does not produce them, immediately, then the veil of secrecy is lifted, and the whole thing is in the hands of the public and the media, not to mention the police. What the TMO is counting on with this "bond offer" is that the investors will be the same domesticated sheep that they've grown used to dealing with in their other scams. The TM TB investors never speak up when they are ripped off, because they've been *trained* never to criticize the "enlightened" teacher or any of his plans. So the TMO gets to keep their money and get away with fleecing them. IMO, they are assuming they'll be able to do the same thing with this new scam. Either that, or it's even more insidious than that. They'll create this phony "bond issue," try to sucker a few people into "investing" in it, then wait for Maharishi to die. Within a couple of months of his death, the on-paper organization that has issued the "bonds" will declare bank- ruptcy and disappear, and will get to keep all the money, pseudo-legally. If the courts can't *find* the money (for example, if it's been transferred to India and disappeared into the black hole of MMY's relatives there), they can't force the org that is going bankrupt to repay it. THAT is what I suspect the real long-term idea behind this bond scheme is. The TMO has taken a page from the Enron playbook and is attempting to run a similar scam. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
