--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > >wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > Not much like Harvard or Yale actually. The integrity is way > >higher > > > & much more transparent at the real universities. Differently, > >at > > > MUM it takes so much more money when half of it disappears > > abroad. > > > No surprize that 250 people have backed out of providing their > > money > > > to Maharaishi now and the TMorg. The word is out. > > > > > > It is about integrity and this money thing kind of goes in the > > same > > > catagory with the movement not being able to easily attract the > > 2,000 > > > or 1700 people (M.E.) it was wishing for without hirlings. > > > > > > It is a sad story about the loss of integrity and a fallen guru. > > > Look at the money problem, their research and their pr, they are > > > apparently liars, cheaters and stealers in method. Qualities not > > > usually associated with integrity. We'll see if Maharishi can re- > > > write things as they have become at the end of his book in the > > final > > > chapter. > > > > > > Lots of people will write the epilogue when the time is ready and > > > there is a lot of material for that. > > > > > > -Doug in FF > > > > I don't really see it as a problem with integrity- In other words I > > don't think the money is being used to enrich anyone. As I've said > > before the TMO including MUM has always struck me as nearly povery > > ridden. The problem is that they feel they are not accountable to > > their benefactors. I feel incalculable gratitude for Maharishi's > > knowledge and could not really put a price tag on it. Having said > > that, I give almost nothing to the Movement, because of > > this "however we spend it is the best way, and no, we don't have to > > tell you how because we are saving the world" attitude. Or more > > precisely, when they pretend not to have the described attitude and > > it leaks out anyway. I would feel better if they just said, "we > need > > money again for continued operations" and left it at that. > > > > Yeah, yours is a good synopsis of how a lot of meditator people feel > here. It (hold the nose and go) is a moral choice and also about > integrity. You live in FF and count yourself in the domes? You go > to the domes? Would you if you live here? > > There are catagories of folk here. All meditators, some who could > like to go but who are administratively denied, some who look the > other way while going, some tru-believer types who make their moral > chice to look the other way and see no evil, some who simply do not > condone the bad behaviour and choose not to go & instead meditate in > other groups or at home during dome times. It all is experience > driven. > > It is a lot about integrity of consciousness and how people gauge for > that. People make moral choices all the time which > are also very much about Maharishi's integrity. Your comments are > entirely common here around the TMorg, even people living on campus > or up in Vedic City. It is fascinating to watch. > > It is about character and integrity and people deal with it in a > variety of ways. That they (Maharishi and the TM0rg) could not > acheive the numbers for the Maharishi Effect without hiring people > and importing pundits, & still try to separate people from their > money after all the other fundraising & conversion of assets? > > People sit with it differently but the numbers in the aggregate > medtitating community have not been good for the TMorg for a while. > It is also about integrity in the marketplace and the > meditating community. Maharishi seemed to have fallen in the scale > of things. So it is. I am quite hopeful in the end because there > are so many really good people around here. It still is a great > spiritual practice community to be in, like that Iowa motto, "Iowa, a > great place to grow". There is also an enduring collective hope and > prayer that Maharishi and the TMorg will grow out of its bad > behaviours and spiritual arrogance. He's got time left in him yet. > > --Doug in FF
An american posing as an expert in character, intergrity and moral issues ? I'm sorry, but HAHAHA !
