--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley"
> <j_alexander_stanley@> 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.
>
Sounds like he got tired of waiting for the butterflies...:-)
