--- In [email protected], anony_sleuth_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > wrote: > > > > > > The interesting thing about this discussion is that > > > according to MMY, he took this same path with Guru > > > Dev of "attuning one's thinking to that of the teacher." > > > > > > If it's true that when you do this, you take on all > > > the qualities of mind of the teacher, what does that > > > say about the qualities of MMY's mind that are so > > > often criticized here? > > > > Go back and read the discussion. No one ever > > suggested that it was an all-or-nothing process, > > or that everyone is successful at modeling the > > mind of their teacher. I know that all I meant > > to suggest is that it's something that one works > > at over a long period of time -- years, or decades. > > And not everyone is successful at doing it. > > > > I would suggest that Maharishi wasn't particularly > > successful at doing it, since one of his first > > actions after Guru Dev's death was to not obey > > what he'd told him to do (that is, go into seclusion, > > and not teach). > > > > In addition, the effects of mind-modeling only "last" > > so long. After almost fifty years, I suspect that > > Maharishi has had an opportunity to pick up a few > > kinks of his own. :-) > > I take a different slant on "mind modelling". It has little if > anyting to do with "content". Its a process of structuring freedom, > of dissolving all inner boundaries, attachments and "sanskaras". > When that is done, content "happens". It may be like the > teachers', it may be a quite new angle.
That's my impression too. The point isn't to absorb the teacher's qualities of *mind* but his/her qualities of *consciousness*. Moreover, it's the process of surrender itself, I should think, that does most of the "work" of structuring freedom. > > Ricks example of those around him now I think is false. They are > "works in progress". Better examples are SSRS. Perhaps Chopra. For > more finsihed works. > > Look at the holy tradition. Was each master a clone of his master? > Hardly, it seems. What is passed down is consciousness awakened to > itself. Content is not "the thing". ------------------------ 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/
