--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Ingegerd" > <marwincornyarmand@> 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. >
<<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. > 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. > > ************************************************************ > I've often thought that Maharishis' lack of loyalty to many who have befriended and supported him is one of the most troubling things about him and the TMO. I know the common justification has always been that 'he's a monk' or 'no attachments'. Well neither of these are really true. Do we know what Guru Dev told him to do? Where does that info come from? JohnY 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/
