--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Lsoma@ wrote:
> >
> > As of today 12/20/06 I have been turned down to participate
> > in America Invincibility course. I have been a regular
> > practitioner of TM and TM-Sidhi's for 28 years. They told
> > me because I practice astrology that I would not be allowed
> > in the dome. I think Maharishi needs to perform the greatest
> > miracle of all. Respect for his citizen Sidha's.
>
> Or for his teachers. You now understand the thing
> that many here on this forum understand, and that
> a couple of the most vocal TM- and MMY-apologists
> on this same forum do not. They don't understand
> because they never put their lives on the line to
> teach TM. They don't understand because they never
> had to scrimp and save to continue their teaching
> activities. They never taught, period.
>
> So when people who did -- for years or even decades --
> express their disappointment at the *lack* of respect
> that Maharishi has for them, these apologists ridicule
> the people who are expressing such sentiments. They
> clearly consider such people weak or lacking in faith.
>
> But the bottom line is that many of the people who
> *did* put their lives on the line for Maharishi, and
> who *did* scrimp and saved to continue doing so,
> *have* been treated like shit by him and his minions.
> And people who *never* made such sacrifices are the
> first to trot out excuses for Maharishi and excuses
> for his minions. *Their* faith is intact because they
> never had to put it to the test. Thus they continue
> to talk the talk of living a spiritual life, without
> ever once having walked the walk of it.
>
It is true that you put your life on the line for the Movement and
for Maharishi, and that apparently, nothing much came of it. And the
one thing I can say about that is that there are monuments to
generals and battles, but none to pioneers in turning that tide,
into a more positive direction. And there should be. Sounds
idealistic I know, however you and all of the other teachers deserve
a debt of gratitude from all of the meditators, however few of us
there are left :-) If it wasn't for you guys, none of what is going
on with the, albeit could be larger, course in Fairfield would be
happening, like it or not.
The movement exists because of the dedication of the teachers. So
Thanks to all of you!!
