--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > <snip> > > Anyway, just a few random thoughts from a Paris > > cafe in the middle of the night...kind of a way > > of saying that I agree with several others here > > that an announcement of "going into silence" > > may well be his way of saying goodbye... > > The more I think about it, the more I think this > is the case (not that he's going to pull a Rama, if > that's what Barry means, but that he knows he's > dying).
I meant only that I think he's lost the will to live. Possibly with a hint of what some film critic wrote about Stanley Kubrick dying just before the release of Eyes Wide Shut, "I think he died so that he didn't have to read the reviews." In other words, if Maharishi dies without ever having had to put his ME theory to the test, he can die without ever having had it disproved. <snip> > Or maybe it's just that if a lot of relatively > devoted TMers are all together when he dies, > they can support each other in their grief and > not go off the deep end. Just as a point, anyone who "goes off the deep end" when their spiritual teacher dies is a cultist in my mind. I attended a satsang given by Gangaji on the day she received word that *her* teacher had died. Although there was some sadness (she had a rather close rela- tionship with Papaji), it was business as usual, and conducted with total professionalism. <snip> > I think an awful lot of what he's been doing in > the past several years, if not the past decade, > has been in preparation for his death. While I agree, I *also* agree with the more Buddhist/Castanedan approach, which is that *every* action one performs, in one's entire *life*, is a preparation for one's death. If what he wanted was students who still respected him at the time of his passing, what he should have done is treat them with more respect during his life. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
