--- In [email protected], "llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What you guys fail to recognize is that over the top gossip which is what > all this is just hurts everybody's cause. If you all like to live by he says > she says then you will continue to do so and that will be that.
No one here is going "to live by he says she says." It is only fair to provide important information about an important person in a friend's life - if you think they can handle it and if it might help them think about things more clearly (if your best friend's wife was cheating on him, would you tell him or not? - lots of variables to consider). Also, the person who witnessed the upsetting incident may be overwhelmed with emotion themselves - not know exactly what to do or whom to tell. It is not easy. You will > never realize things for yourselves. And that is the truth. That is the > curse of gossip is that it leads to the inability to darshan direct. > Moreover, all the MMY and TMO slamming decreases the samaya of Fairfield > altogether and its spiritual power. You guys misuse the power of Vach. And > of all people I'm most shocked by Vaj who is an Illuminati, of all of you, > because he still misuses speech selfishly and for egoic reasons. Vaj Bro, > I'm sorry I asked you to come to FFLife two years ago. You have generated > much ill will since then. > > Have a nice day everybody. Saturday night a week from the start of > Mardi-Gras. I'm fucked! I agree that gossip is destructive - but I don't think talk of this issue with regard to MMY or any saint is plain old gossip. For one thing, we can't be everywhere to see all the in's and out's of MMY's behavior. So reporting back from people who were there (and witnessed or experienced the behavior) is a bit different than gossip, IMO. I think this generation of seekers, on many paths, not just TM, are dealing with the issue of enlightened people behaving in ways we don't associate with enlightenment. It is a BIG thing to work around emotionally. It is not gossip. It is a profound change in the understanding of what enlightenment means for human behavior during Kali Yuga. People may have to decide whether they want to know the facts, or be happy but ignorant. But I agree with you that doubts might interfere with darshan, and in The Grand Scheme of Things, maybe moving toward enlightenment without any doubts trumps the truth. I don't know.
