--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "anonyff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
That was then, this is now. I thought I had been pretty clear that this new development went hand-in- hand with the whole raja thing, so it obviously doesn't apply to the period you're talking about. Didn't you see the quote Shemp posted here several times? In any case, you're talking about people who were working for the movement full-time, and around MMY to boot. The folks I was talking about are the TM teachers out in the field who have been holding down non-TMO jobs and teaching on the side, but doing so through the TMO. Or maybe they've stopped teaching altogether because they didn't feel like doing it the TM way but didn't want to cross the TMO either. You're confusing apples and oranges here. This isn't about going out and making a living vs. working full- time for the TMO, it's about being able to teach TM on your own instead of through the TMO. 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" <jstein@> 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. ------------------------ 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/
