I strongly disagree with this. I can remember many many instances, which I heard with my own two ears, of Maharishi disgustedly and quite condescendingly, demeaned people for wanting to get jobs and try to earn a living. I have heard first-hand accounts from people/friends, who went directly to Maharish and asked to be *released* from service from their jobs in the upper echelons of the TMO, including working in his inmost circle, and I was told that he was very very demeaning to them and made it clear that from his perspective he felt that if *they wanted to waste their lives* they had the right to do so.......
I had a directly personal experience with Maharishi in which he specifically told me, when I had indicated that I was going to pursue some new direction with my life, where he asked me to go home and ask for permission to work for the movement, *...just a little bit longer..." HA! is all I can say about that result. I can't think of one instance where, at least publicly, he gave someone his *blessing* to go off and earn a living. >From my perspective, now, nearly forty years later, I wish I had been one of the intelligent ones who saw the writing on the wall and did pursue a career and simply kept meditating. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: > [Sal wrote:] > > > Good old fashioned honesty and actually attempting to help > > > people lead more productive lives would have been more than > > > enough. Now nobody really cares anymore. > > > > When the seed is ripened, you either devour it or scatter it to > > the ground to grow more. I think M has been telling, directly or > > indirectly , the intelligent ones, for years to go out on your own > > and do your own thing. > > I agree. Shemp has several times posted a MMY quote > which suggests precisely that, and I wrote a longish > post awhile back about the same thing. MMY has > effectively and with his blessing released TM teachers > from whatever commitment they felt to the TMO, while at > the same time giving those who wanted an opportunity to > renew that commitment to do so. > > Yet, remarkably, we focus almost exclusively on the > latter as if the former didn't even exist. > 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/
