--- In [email protected], "Ingegerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "geezerfreak" > <geezerfreak@> wrote: > > > > > Is that cos Guru Dev is competition too????????
Absolutely. > I have had some thoughts about that. If MMY who is saying > that he tried to be like Guru Dev - read his mind - walked > in his footsteps - had lived like Guru Dev - it would have > been a different TMO. If MMY had given out exactly what > Guru Dev said - (I know your quotes, Paul), it would have > been very obvious that MMYs teaching is different from > Guru Devs teaching in many ways. Bingo. A perfect segue to another of the "trying to figure it out" raps done while "catching up" on FFL this last month: ************************************************************ Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking What I find that I'm developing about Fairfield Life and its regulars after this self-enforced absence is a sense of compassion for many of the people who spend so much of their time being so angry there. What I think is driving the anger is a profound sense of loss -- at Maharishi and what he has become, for the TMO for what it has become, and for themselves and what they have become. Having watched FFL for over a year, there is a pattern in which the rancor increases, and people start slinging mud at each other and calling each other names. It starts up every time the TM movement or Maharishi personally does something really, really, really stupid. Like the latest bit with the course in Fairfield, using it as an oppor- tunity to "weed out" those who have been "unfaithful" to Maharishi, and have had the gall to "see other people." Or to try to make them feel shame for not falling for the "cry wolf" game one more time. A few people here get really, really, really upset every time the TMO does something this stupid. And then they lash out at others, trying to blame them and demonize them for the way that these stupid things make *them* feel inside. *They* hate this stuff that Maharishi does and that the TMO does as much as anyone else, but they can't bring themselves to admit it, so IMO they feel compelled to lash out at others and blame the way that *they* feel on them. In my opinion this odd behavior happens because the people who do it have modeled their minds on the mind of a person who thinks this way himself, and acts this way himself. This mind-modeling has taken place on many levels. It's been learned consciously in response to words spoken by Maharishi and taught by example as he performs the actions that they interpret as enlight- ened and attempt to emulate. But even more important, it's been accomplished through the process of them -- the TBs -- doing what they were told to do by Maharishi himself, practicing the spiritual technique he held up for them as the quintessence of spiritual practice -- "becoming in tune with one's teacher's thinking." *That* is the spiritual model that Maharishi sells, more than any other. Blind devotion to one's teacher and trying to cultivate the ability to think like him is what he's sold to his close followers all these years -- not TM, not the siddhis. We can see this most clearly when someone he has given a lot of attention to within the TM movement decides to leave it, and him. Maharishi takes such "betrayals" very, very personally, and far from graciously. It's *Maharishi* who has the hangup about "loyalty," and who views anyone who isn't completely "faithful" to him forever as weak and a failure, or an actual enemy. It's *Maharishi's* mindset we see in the words of the TBs, spoken by people who don't even know that the mindset they're expressing is not their own. And interestingly, I think the reason Maharishi feels this way is that he's doing the same thing the TBs on FFL and elsewhere in the TMO are doing, projecting his own internal dis-ease outwards. IMO Maharishi feels "betrayed" by those who don't do everything he says because *he* didn't do what Guru Dev told him to do. He was told to go off and meditate, and *not* to teach, and he did the opposite. I honestly think that inwardly he feels that he betrayed his teacher, and that these feelings come to the surface for him whenever someone "betrays" him by not doing exactly what *he* tells them to do. As with the TBs he's trained to think like him, when this happens Maharishi blames the person who has made him feel this way, and often does his best to demonize them for leaving, or for not following his advice as if it were the word of God. But what I think he's really angry at them for is making *him* feel emotions he doesn't like to experience. What he's feeling when his students don't do what he tells them to do is his own karma. It's just so sad that he's never been able to realize that. ************************************************************ 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/
