--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Maybe first learn reading what a person actually has said, > > > and don't just dump on him once he appears. Once more: my > > > post is not about the difference of opinions about Maharishi > > > that Michael and Irmeli have, but about her dumping on the > > > devotional attidute per se. That in itself is an intolerance, > > > and it is your intolerance of even disallowing to bring this > > > angle up. Poor you! > > > > In fact you are like the dog in the cattle manger: You have > > no use of Bhakti yourself, and dump on those who enjoy it. > > I have a great respect for bhakti, when its adnerents > actually practice it and don't use it as an excuse to > feed their own victim fetish.
First: Bhakti is not necessarily something you need to practise, but it is something you have or don't have. it has something to do with appreciation. In the case of Michael Goodman, it is clear that his appreciation of MMY has something to do with graditude and love, and not with 'ego' as Irmeli wrongly proposed. Second: I don't feed a victim fetish (gosh, what are you doing here all the time!), but just point out something which seems obvious to me, and I feel every right to do so, just like anybody here. Now suddenly everybody here is full of respect for bhakti, why otherwise this topic *never* comes up in any of your or Irmelis posts. Love of Guru, appreciation of a teaching, dedication to a certain cause is without exception ridiculed here on this board by people like you. I just point this out. Continue if you want, I don't care. But people talking so much about 'authentic' teachings, should just know a little bit about authentic teachings. > I think that's what you > are doing. Irmeli didn't dump on bhakti; that's just > how you interpreted her words so you could feel offended > and slip into outraged victim mode again. IMO, of course. Of course. No, that appreciation of Michael IS Bhakti; sure, it's a defense, a rationalization, but from a POV of apprecitation. Get to his arguments, no problemo. But refrain from dumping on his reverence. Thats all. Get it? ------------------------ 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/
