Good points, some comments interwoven. --- In [email protected], "wayback71" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In my own case, I didn¹t for a moment take the rumors seriously, but then I > > never had the amount and detail of information now available. And if books > > come out, there will be much more info. My guess is that a percentage will > > deny it all, while refusing to look at the evidence, while a majority will > > accept it. Some of these will dismiss him as a total fraud, but hopefully > > many will try to arrive at a balance view. > > In my case, I heard rumors in the 70's and dismissed them.
Me too. I heard some pretty exlicit detailed things in 1977. To my surprise, it didn't phase me much. I figured, if true, its M's business -- and what someone does --- who (presumably -- and this was absolutely assumed back then) had full mastery of yogic powers, and energy flows --- is not so relevant for aspirants. > But a few years later began to > wonder as more information appeared. I pretty much decided to keep on with the Faith, > partly because I had so much invested already. Now, I do think the rumors are true, The skin-boy diaries were eye opening to me. And I was vageuly acquainted one of the women from my TTC -- same extension course hotel. Various things fell together and made sense. > still love MMY and his teachings and have benefitted so greatly from it all. Yes. Regardless of his status in the pantheon of teachers, to me, he was a great guy, a strong positive influence in my life, particularly at 17 when I was searching and "wandering". And hey, its NOT a competition -- as some would portray it, aka "my teacher/lineage is SO AWESOME and yours SUCKS, thus, do the math --- I (me me me) am SOOO AWESOME". >I can't really > judge his actions, although it makes me uncomfortable and I wouod prefer to have a > snowy white teacher. We would all "dream" of such. But we generally get what we need. However, a 6 year old doesn't need Barry Bonds to teach him how to bat. SBS sought out and found a life-celibate teacher. That was important and perhaps quite necessary for for him. For us -- we all don't / didn't necessarily need the WORLDS GREATEST TEACHER, purity incarnate, to teach us some basic stuff. >Not sure that is possible on earth and in Kali Yuga. It apparently was for SBS, but we know so little about his teacher. And "snowy white" is really about purity of consciousness. The trailing unwrappings of some past karmic "trash" is not really relevant to THAT. > The Universe > seems to contain much that I don't really understand, so I just continue what feels good > and right, and for now that includes TM, love for Guru Dev and respect for MMY, despite > the garbage. and as Dr. Pete suggested, I watch my wallet around the TMO. Older and > wiser, I guess. Good that you still have a wallet, after all these years. haha. > 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/
