--- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> 
> > > me.  I'm wasing my time with you, Jim.
> > >
> > ??? I don't get it. You are a first for me too-- despite my 
hundreds 
> > of posts here on FFL, some in strong disagreement with others, I 
> > have not yet dealt with someone like yourself, who, on the one 
hand, 
> > repeatedly tells me I am not addressing the issue, and on the 
other, 
> > refuses to clarify it. Further, every time *I* attempt to 
clarify 
> > it, which I have done 4 or 5 times, am told I am tap dancing, 
> > evasive, BSing, etc. At this point I don't even know what you 
want 
> > to discuss, much less resolve. 
> > 
> > You appear to have a set of assumptions you are making and I 
have no 
> > idea what those are, which I am then accused of obscuring. Very 
> > strange. Anyway, good luck?:-)
> 
> No assumptions, Jim. Very specific items.
> 
> Either you have a convenient ability to forget what I wrote to you 
or
> you're just being dishonest. 

Not dishonest, just busy with life. Thanks for the summary.:-)

Below is what I wrote to you. I've
> summarized it below that:
> 
<snip> Just to make it more specific and simple:
> 
> Banning initiations in Great Britain

No problem with this. He began the Movement, and as its "CEO" he can 
do what he likes.:-)
> 
> Closing TM Centers

Same as above.:-)
> 
> Promoting and abandoning bizarre costly projects

Same as above.:-)
> 
> The King Tony stuff

I assume you mean the way he treats Tony Nader, and the position he 
holds in the Movement.
Same as above.:-)
> 
> Pitches for mega amounts of cash

Same as above.:-)
> 
> The disappearance of millions of those dollars after he gets them
>
I have stopped contributing any money to the TMO, except for $50 for 
the pundit program in Iowa. I have no idea where the money goes. As 
I've mentioned before, the Movement makes a big deal of being rich, 
though there is always an air of shabbiness around it.

Yes, the Movement has changed, and Maharishi has changed what he has 
said about the direction of it, and his intentions for it. This is 
decidedly different from the way all of the major religions operate, 
because with dogma we get certainty. And with dogma it is easy to 
keep saying the same things over and over again, as if they mean 
something. People like that. Except that it doesn't lead to 
enlightenment. Only a path that is dynamic, breaks boundaries, and 
is headed by a supremely enlightened teacher has a hope of leading 
its followers to a result of supreme glory, fulfillment and the ever 
changing, ever fulfilling Reality of Brahman, and that path is 
Maharishi's path for us. As the bumper sticker says, "lead, follow, 
or get out of the way".

Thank you for asking my opinion of these things. Sorry it took so 
long to get back to the meat of the issues-- my bad. Jai Guru Dev. 
Om Shiva.:-)

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