--- In [email protected], "anonyff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" jstein@ wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
> This discussion, and Judy's point (everyone's collectively, really)
> brough to mind the passage from the Gita (Gita scholars chime in here)
> where it says (paraphrased) "...better to die in one's own dharma than
> trying to take on the dharma of another..."
>
> I know that this has really had to come into play in my own life,
> realizing that all that I took and and tried to be via my long years
> with the TM org were attempts at living someone elses vision of how my
> life should be lived.
>
> And I've seen this struggle in so many others. Some have successfully
> managed to imbibe qualites/ways of living that, initially, seemed so
> alien, and they truly made them their own. Others, like me, strained
> to be a certain way and in many ways it backfired. I feel like I
> wasted years of my life, from age 30-40, knowing and experiencing my
> life as anything but a success but unwilling/unable to escape from the
> deep rut I had dug myself into from taking on a massive belief system
> that clearly wasn't working but which I clung to in the hopes I was
> wrong and any second now it was going to work. This never happened
> until I decided to "get out" and even then (15+ years ago) and now, I
> struggle with the whole thing.
>
A huge problem I think as many of the original TM Teachers I know were told and sincerely believed they would be enlightened in 5 years. They are all in poverty now as I will be unless I get my act together!
The movement promises so much and while the evolution is real it doesn't lead to what you expect. Most of it is such crap but obviously really appeals to the seeker. Look on the bright side everyone I know who has been holding down a job & paying a mortgage all these years is really jealous of our evolutionary lives. The grass is always greener...
Perhaps the government will take pity on us and give us a fat pension as a reward for all our coherence creating. (I hope you can tell that's a joke)
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