--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > I don't think that love and critical faculties are mutually > > > exclusive. One should never abdicate one's critical faculties. > > > If a spiritual teacher tells you to do so, head for the door. > > > > I couldn't agree more, and find the assertion to > > the opposite -- that one "should" believe that one's > > spiritual teacher is "perfect" -- very curious indeed. > > To me, the notion that Rick is "reducing Maharishi to a relative > personality, with flaws like all of us" is utterly bizarre. Reducing? > As if MMY or any other of the 6.5 billion humans on earth is somehow > *not* a relative personality with flaws like all of us? Rick's friend > sounds like he'd be shocked to learn that MMY also pees from a dick > and shits out of an asshole. >
When I first started meditating when I was 18, the friend who introduced me to TM (and who subsequently went off to TTC like I did and became a teacher) told me that when Maharishi goes to the bathroom, it comes out as butterflies. And I actually believed him until I was about 28. But then again, my mother had told me when I was about 5 that chocolate milk came from brown cows and I believed that until I was 35 and mentioned it in front of a large group of people. By the way, the friend who started me on TM quit meditating around '84.
