--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I *never* encountered any > teaching in the TM context about "blind devotion > to one's teacher" or "becoming in tune with one's > teacher's thinking" as "the quintessence of spiritual > practice." >
Although Maharishi may not have ever said this explicitly-I want you, my followers, to become in tune with my thinking-he certainly requested this, no, demanded it in every way. If you did not do what he said, when he said, you were out, All things are done his way or it's the highway. After enough of this, you learn to do exactly what you are told to do. Also, and perhaps more to the point, how many dozens of times did I/we hear the story, either directly from Maharishi, or on the taped story, or rehashed/recounted by Bevan, et. al, of how Maharishi put himself in tune with Guru Dev and in his innocent, Trotakacharya-like self-atunement with his Guru Dev, his own consciousness merged with Guru Dev's/Universal C'ness. This was told over and over and many Westnerns took this to mean that if they want to rise to the heights of enlightenment they need to do the same. People will tell you this in nearly plain English by (selectively) following things Maharishi has said and parroting back, "Maharishi said...." I know for myself, many years after the fact, I still have that little voice looking over my shoulder for everything. It's hard to remove it. Many of the so-called TBers have carried this self-atunement to the letter and many also look unhealthy and have strained in thei lives for years. Far be it from me to critidize for this but I couldn't keep it up. Chaim > OK, Barry does say these people are "close followers." > Perhaps he means TM teachers, who may have received > the teaching he describes while the rank-and-filers > did not? > > But who on this forum is a TM teacher and a TB? I > can't think of anybody offhand. > > <snip> > > 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. > > Just one other point: A "hangup about loyalty" is > common in many, many groups, spiritual or otherwise. > It's particularly common in politics (see the general > condemnation of Joe Lieberman among Democrats, just > for one example). > > So the "hangup about loyalty" mindset that the > mysterious teacher-TBs on this forum manifest, > according to Barry, need not have been acquired from > MMY; they could have encountered and absorbed it in > any group they had worked with. > > It's certainly rife among many of the other followers > of Guru Dev; just think of the abuse that's been > heaped on MMY for going his own way (including the > story Barry cites of Guru Dev having told MMY not to > teach). > > So if Barry's insight is sound, we'd have to assume > *Guru Dev* fostered those loyalty hangups as well, > and that Guru Dev did so because he felt guilty > about betraying his own teacher. > 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/
