--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> > wrote: > <snip> > Your words, Jim, in response to almost everything on the abbreviated > > list I provided: > > > > "No problem with this. He began the Movement, and as its "CEO" he > can > > do what he likes." > > > > You've set Maharishi at a level of a corporate CEO instead of a > > spiritual icon. I would tend to agree with that assessment of him > > however, and further suggest that that indicates that he isn't much > > beyond your average CEO in standards or ethics. > > > > I find it interesting that the only thing that seemed to get your > > attention in the short list I provided was the disposition of the > > missing million$ - even though in the thread I extensively > elaborated > > on the other items on that list. > > > > That certainly reveals your position on Maharishi as a teacher and > as > > a spiritual icon. It reveals that you are indifferent to whether he > > has any particular standards or not. > > > > Guru Dev himself, as a young boy, had very rigid standards for > > whomever was to become his teacher. And Guru Dev himself > exemplified > > the highest standards of spiritual ethics. > > > > What's a bummer to me is that TMers like you seem to think > that 'all > > is well' WITHOUT any of those standards. And people like Jerry ask > > questions like, "Do you know any billionaires?" as if cash is the > > 'great answer' in lieu of Paramatman. > > > > Something's rotten in Denmark in my view and the population > refuses to > > notice it, even when it's clearly pointed out. I've experienced > that > > many of those people like it that way however, and will and have > > overtly, even viciously, attempted to eliminate any effort to make > it > > any different. > > > You are pretty accurate in reflecting my assessment of Maharishi-- > that he can pretty much do as he has done. I did provide a reasoning > for why I thought this was so; dogma vs attainment of Brahman. > > So I'll take it a step further and say that ordinarily I'd be on > your side 100%; that here is a spiritual icon, Maharishi, who is not > behaving as I would expect a spiritual icon to behave, and something > should be done about it. > > Except for one thing: > > I have met too many others who are experiencing the goal of this > particular teacher's teaching, too many others who are living > Brahman as their daily experience, too many others bathing every day > and every night in the full sunshine and moonlight of the age of > enlightenment. That is, as they say, the proof in the pudding. > > I agree that on the face of it, Maharishi appears to act in > confounding, confusing, even counter-productive ways. And yet, > whatever he is doing works. And that is the key. Whatever it is, it > works. Kind of like the whole paradigm of enlightenment; I don't > know how it works, but it just does.:-)
Maharishi told us a story once of a japanese fellow who just learned TM from him on his first visit. He told Maharishi that he had no idea what was going on; But : "it works !" Maharishi seemed to like the idea of not understanding anything yet gaining something, as he was laughing he was repeating: "it works !"
