--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "qntmpkt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> On other topics, I (as opposed to Vaj); will come right out with my > game plan for a Jihad against ignorance. First on the agenda: make > TM available to everybody on the planet. This project alone could > take us about 500 years. > > If, after giving TM a try, (that is AS TAUGHT BY MMY!); and they > prefer not to practice this wonderful technique; they should then > give statistically inferior methods a chance, such as various > mindfulness techniques one might find in Buddhism. > > Vaj, I urge you to join with us in spreading TM throughout the world, > declaring a Jihad against Ignorance. Should such TM practitioners > also be inclined to being devoted to various Buddhist teachers like > the Dalai Lama, or Norbu (i.e. Gurus fitting their mold in the > centuries to come); fine. I practice TM but am devoted to 3 > excellent Buddhist teachers, including Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. But > I'm the true Buddhist. You're the errant and misguided Buddhist. >
Maharishi's World Plan revisited Remember the old analogy about pulling the arrow on the bowstring back all the way into silence? And then letting it go in activity? This is Maharishi's core message and teaching. Sure there is the benefit of deep rest during meditation and all that, coming out into activity, inward stroke/outward stroke...blah, blah, blah. But beyond that, seeing the big picture, is the macro action of pulling the bowstring back All The Way, and then...just holding it there. Holding the arrow between the fingers, arms flexed, legs stout, straight back, pulling all the way back, creating that silence and that tension, together. Self-discipline. Maharishi has been teaching us to not only pull back the bow each time we meditate, but also the macro action of pulling back on the bow and just holding it there. Each of us holding the bow back in Silence. No release. This then is how our beautiful planet is slowly and steadily being rehabilitated, this is the way the troops are assembled, each to our Dharma, marshaled for the final campaign, inside and out, earth as the target. It takes everything we have in order to save our planet (or our planet-body, as you wish). So the bow is pulled back, and held there. Some will take stock of all that has come out from Maharishi so far, and conclude sooner or later, "There, that's it- we're done, didn't work, Maharishi is a fake and worse, in it for the money, sex, power, and fame..." And yet, he doesn't let us off the hook so easily, the arrow is not yet released, the deed is not yet done. With the string held all the way back, it is held in silence, hidden from view, hidden from activity. Just silence, and tension, existing together. The tension acting like a white hot star, steadily burning through subtle thoughts, enlarging the universal silence within us. The string is held taught in silence. Imagine a thousand people, a million, ten millionÂ…then six billion people on our planet (or within us, if you prefer), all desiring Light, expansion, enlightenment, a better life. Each of us meditators doing our practice twice a day tactically, and at the same time over the years, holding back the bow strategically in silence, holding back the arrow in the tension of waiting -Self discipline- years of holding the bow back and creating a powerful Absolute component to the daily life on earth. Silence supporting activity. All of us joined together, creating a hidden blanket of silence on which the earth rests, more and more comfortably. By sacrificing himself to Guru Dev, to Shiva, and to all of us who are easy to criticize him, Maharishi, as the greatest Kshatriya, has created an army of archers, ready to loose the arrows on his command. We are holding back the bows, each of us ten thousand times a year. Year after year, after year. Pulling back the bowstring, each of us. Until we begin to hold back the bow continuously, beginning to identify now with the absolute nature of Maharishi. Identifying with the holding back of the bow, and just waiting to act. Life goes on, and still we hold back the bow, waiting to act. We measure ourselves by the symptoms he has given us, to show us how successful we are at holding back the bow continuously. Silence and tension growing into and supporting CC, then GC, then UC. This is the only value to the higher states of consciousness for us to Maharishi; how well it indicates our perfection as archers, ready to loose that volley of light, unleashed steadily upon the earth, changing the age, silence supporting activity, transforming life for all of us here on earth.
