--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" <geezerfreak@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5"
> > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Looking over this list now, how late did it run? Evidently from
> the
> > > 1960's into the 1980's? Any more names to add to the timeline?
> > >
> > Yes. Joyce-Collin-Smith, who was MMY's personal secretary when he was
> > based in London in the early and mid 60's wrote that MMY went from an
> > essentially open door policy at the London center where he lived to
> > "locking his door in the afternoons, closeted alone with one young
> > woman or another. He had departed from the Holy Tradition of his
> > Masters as worldly needs had gradually got a hold on him."
> >
> There's an interesting linkage that many people are making between
> what Maharishi has or has not done, and what that might mean relative
> to the knowledge that he has brought out. Did he have sex even though
> he says he doesn't? Did he covet money even though he claims to be a
> monk who owns nothing? Is he a power monger although he professes to
> love everyone? And the 500 pound gorilla in the room is the possible
> impact these ambiguities have on the knowledge he has taught and
> spread. Otherwise, who cares?
>
> The cool thing about all this as I see it is that each of those
> sticking points- the sex, the money and the power- are all vague
> enough in their evidence and any definitive answers as to allow near
> endless debate on each topic, leaving the ultimate decision regarding
> the validity of the knowledge Maharishi has brought out to the world
> up to each of us.
>
> There is no foundation on which to base a decision save the enjoyment
> or not each of us feels relative to the knowledge Maharishi has
> brought out. By pondering the events in his life, it brings us closer
> to examining the knowledge he has brought out. If he had been perfect,
> without any taint of conflict in his life, perhaps those near him
> would not have dived so deeply into the knowledge he brought out. Who
> knows?
>
> Maharishi has not only taught the technique of Transcendental
> Meditation, he IS Transcendental Meditation, literally. Talk about
> walking the talk. Pretty trippy stuff.
>
Walking the talk? Lordy Jim. Have another Gulab Jamin pal.
