---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Hey Duveyoung, what a wonderful rant! I've pasted together many of your last
posts to create an überrant, they are easier to delete this way, they have more
sustaining power this way. Re: 'I got bupkis'. You got the whole secret right
here, you got nada, zilch, blank, diddly, zero. Enlightenment is selling water
by the river, always has been, always will be. That realisation should be a
relief, because it is an inside job. Who did what to whom? Is anybody really
there at home, or away from home? The dissatisfaction of finding out or the
satisfaction of finding out depends on whether the realisation came when
someone was at home, or not.
For posterity: Duveyoung's Rant
Yeah, I'm pissy, and I threaten physical violence.
I was in the audience when Maharishi described how he came up with the
mantras. (He may have given this explanation on other occasions...dunno.)
It wasn't from Guru Dev...the technique might have been from Guru Dev, but the
mantras were picked by Maharishi as he sat on his bed in a hotel room...if I
remember correctly. There was never a moment when Guru Dev pulled Maharishi
aside and gave birth to the technique as far as I can tell...merely from Guru
Dev's talks did Maharishi get the concepts we're being told comes from 5,000
years of tradition. But, nope, don't think so anymore. Can anyone add more to
my dim memories of this?
Maharishi never gave a damn about us ever understanding "a philosophy made
necessary" if the concept "transcendental" is the basis of it.
Except for learning puja and checking notes, we never had "general philosophy
101" classes, never had exams, never had sub-leaders who could lead a
discussion about philosophy, never were encouraged to study the Gita or other
scriptures, never had any "must memorize" commands, etc. We were forbidden to
read any other spiritual books.
Yeah, Maharishi taught us by answering the mike-questions, but that was always
informal and there was no "lesson plan" for the "students."
In short we were put out into the public wilds completely unable to defend TM
with concepts and logic...except such as we were able to individually pony up
when the moment came that someone asked a deeper question.
We were JOKES, and we didn't know it, but because most of our audiences were
as un-scholarly as we were, so we could bullshit to the max. Any PhD in
philosophy candidate could have us tied up in knots and sweating buckets.
Oh, we were told we were Totakacharya types...the nice folks who were stupid
but who would do great works none-the-less. We swallowed that shit like it was
caviar.
So don't go pushing Chapter 7 on me — it's just window dressing in a billion
dollar scam.
I read the first six chapters and wore out three copies of the book
underlining and adding comments and questions in the margins. After I got into
Advaita, I read MMY's Gita one last time and I WAS APPALLED at the lack of
consistency of how key concepts were used.
Go ahead, try to find out what Maharishi would say are the defining
DIFFERENCES "being, consciousness, isness, amness, transcendent, awareness,
witness, soul, etc." I'll wait. No one...I repeat, NO ONE came off a TM
teachers' training course being able to define these words without paradox or
treating most of them as if they were synonyms of each other. We were hustlers
with shiny shoes, a $200 suit and a $200 car.
We were fucking chumps.
Eight months of teacher training.
29 years in the chair — four hours a day — five of the years in the dome.
2000 initiations
3% of Napa taught
Many ATRs, many advance techniques
Lived in one room of the center for 8 years and scraped by in order to keep
the center open.
Moved to FF because The Tubby Fut said we'd have a nuke war...lived in FF from
1981 to 1999.
Kids in MSAE all their lives.
AND I'M STILL PENT UP ENOUGH TO SLUG SOMEONE WITHOUT FORMAL NOTICE.
Where's the beef? We were promised MAGNIFICENT PERSONALITY EVOLUTION.
I got bupkis.
I went to at least ten different jyotish "experts." Not a single one predicted
my future or knew stuff about me from my past. I went to Gandhi, "Maharishi's
astrologer," when it was still allowed. Guy read my palm too! GAWD.
Then there I consulted with about ten of the FF folks who jumped on the
jyotish bandwagon. Not saying jyotish doesn't work — just saying I never had
anyone show me it does.
I did my jyotish diary for five years — actually assigned numbers to various
qualities of life — on a daily basis, I was rating my sex life, my finances, my
dreams, my food, my sleep...about a dozen attributes...and then I tried to find
correlations with the charts...never could get zilch for a correlation. Ya'd
have thunk I would have somehow unconsciously arranged to make my life fit the
stars better. You know, I should have wrote more poetry when Mercury was stro
