It's really true, MMY has shown us techniques for speeding enhanced awareness, he can't do them for us. We are free to take as much or little, in either the TMO or some allied organization. I know I have benefitted greatly from Vedic techniques which MMY has touted, though not many of them his at this point, that is besides the point, in the interdependence of all things MMY's addition is Vedic and Impersonal. Vedic is to say God, and we all know that pretty much every god fearing worshipper is somehow a total hypocrite just as Jesus worshippers get blood lust whenever they hear of a righteous war. Your God is the source of your bloodlust plain and simple, and nothing else. Of course the problem is not the god but how the internal interaction with God is self-filtered through human idiocy, and hence the devas decome devils and Ahura Mazda becomes the asura. Because humans drink tequila until they puke and then blame the tequila. Until one becomes a tantric and it all just becomes calories.
-----Original Message----- From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jim_flanegin Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:53 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Witness Chronology to the Sex --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links
