--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > On Feb 18, 2007, at 1:48 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > > > I also don't get the Guru Dev worship. > > > > I'm pretty sure it's the chair and umbrella. > > Interestingly, you might be right on that one. > NO ONE knows him except through those photos, > and in them he looks exotic, and wise, and from > a whole different world than the people who > idolize him come from. And so they project onto > him all of their fantasies of enlightenment, and > what that word means or doesn't mean to them. > > And it was the same thing with Maharishi. He > arrived on our shores as this exotic little dark- > haired monk in white robes, and everyone swooned > and just assumed that everything he said was the > Truth, with a capital T.
Well, er, not everyone. I would have much preferred a guy in a lab coat with letters after his name. It was only because there *were* guys with letters after their names touting TM that I came anywhere near it. MMY didn't impress me at all; he was a bug, not a feature, as far as I was concerned. <snip> > So now my interest is NOT in the guru guys, > Maharishi or anyone. It's the *students*. I have > a lingering fascination for those who check their > critical faculties at the door, and who then > realize what they did, laugh, and get over it > and move on to laugh at themselves in new situ- > ations. The question is whether you're *learning* anything from these people. So far, the answer appears to be no.
