--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 4/12/2007 2:21:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > , Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > On Apr 12, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > Values are relative. You are more offended by organizational > systems > > > being applied to enable someone to give as much as possible, > however > > > little, to as many as possible than you are by a spiritual > teacher > > > using his power and charisma to indulge his personal cravings for > sex > > > and money. > > > > I really doubt Shemp objects to the money part. > > I wouldn't begrudge him the money part or the sex part (to each his > own) if the World Plan was actually being implemented. But, alas, > virtually no one is starting TM these days...more people seem to be > flocking to get hugged by Guiness Book of Records hungry publicity > hounds...and that's the real tragedy. > The real tragedy is that the TMO is so bent on doing it their way it turned > everyone off so they decided to find a way to grow spiritually without all of > the fundamentalist guidelines that the organization has in order to create a > superiority complex around the idea that they are protecting the teaching. > After all these years of losing thousands of people to Ammachi, Mother Meera, > SSRS or whoever they still don't get it. They will go to the ends after MMY > dies to protect an ideology and teaching while the world blows itself up. > There are many people including myself who are not going to wait around for the > Governors of the Age of Enlightenment to save the world since the respect for > its own people has been ignored. There are many teachers in the world and > many groups in Fairfield, Iowa that can provide a more relaxed approach and make > everyone feel welcome. I think MMY is the greatest meditation teacher in the > world but he lacks a caring heart for his people. Or maybe he just cares > about those who want to do it his way or in his mind the only way. Love and > Light. Lsoma.
Well said. And, curiously, I think in his quieter moments Maharishi realizes his screwup. You write above that "there are many teachers in the world and many groups in Fairfield that can provide a more relaxed approach". Well, I took that to mean that you are referring to TM teachers who are already or are ready to teach TM on their own. I actually believe that Maharishi even holds great sympathy for these people because in that famous press conference of about 3 or 4 years ago when asked by someone what he thought about people teaching TM outside the TMO, Maharishi replied "we are satisfied" (there was more to his response but those three words encapsulate what he said). > > > > > > To each his own. > > > > > > > > > > > > ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. >
