--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I may not be enlightened, but due to Maharishi's techniques I > have had experiences of the universe that I could not possibly have > through any other way that I know of(except maybe brain damaging > drugs). And, my direct experience, entirely as a result of his > techniques, is that the world we play in is like flotsam floating on > a vast ocean of very intensified bliss energy. It is so powerful, > and it is just below the surface of things, and it threatens to > burst into, and overflow our universe at any time. Such an event > would be so powerful that everyone would be transformed in a matter > of minutes. It would be like the magma under the surface of the > Earth, bursting out and flowing all over the surface...only it would > not be fire, but bliss. I believe this cataclysm is only years, > maybe a few decades away, at most. This is not what I "learned" from > Maharishi, but my direct and very common experience. It is physical, > spiritual, and real. > > OffWorld > You experience a lot of bliss and ascribe it to be possible only through the techniques that MMY has brought out, mainly because those techniques are the only ones you have seriously dedicated yourself to practise. I too experience a lot of bliss in a similar way that you describe, but I don't ascribe it solely due to the basic very simple TM technique that is the only technique I have learned through the TMO and only practised for half a year, as it was taught. Most people who have learned this simple technique have benefited very little from it. So it cannot be just the technique. For some reason you give MMY credit for something much bigger in which bringing out some simple techniques plays just a minor role. Why? But MMY's role for the values you have adopted is much bigger through the belief system you have adopted from him. That is: all we need is enough bliss to transform and enlighten the whole world. The TMO has been trying to force it to happen. Trying to force one's belief system to become reality is called fundamentalism. But it won't become reality, because reality doesn't obey you. In there being more bliss now many different sources have been playing an important role. The TMO is just one of them. According to my understanding an enlightened person could give appreciation to them all. Bliss solving all the problems is a belief of your's and MMY's, not the reality. And trying to force more bliss to appear has got the TMO to resort to the principle `end justify means'. This principle usually goes together with forcing and manipulation, and often causes more harm than good. Bliss is not all that is needed to transform the world. It is one ingredient, but not sufficient alone. Seeing it being all that is needed is MMY's biggest fallacy. It has justified him dishonest behaviour, because for him how his mind operates doesn't matter, only bliss matters. His thinking has probably gone in the following routes: "Because I'm bringing to the world this absolute bliss, I'm beyond the karmic consequences of my gross level behaviour. It is allowed for me just to make a powerful impression and manipulate people following me. When the bliss transforms the world, I too will be automatically purified.What I now do behind the curtains doesn't really matter." Maybe not on the big cosmic scale. He is too small a speck there. But for his personal evolution it certainly does, and karma he cannot escape.Accepting one's defects and being open with them is in itself transformative. Pretending to be something one is not, even if it happens in the name of a higher good, is degenerative. This is easy to see to be true also for MMY. He has been a messenger boy and brought something important to the west, as have many other teachers. And many people have benefited from his teachings in spite of its weaknesses. Irmeli ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
