[FairfieldLife] First meetings with MMY (was Re: Marco Polo Arrives)
My first encounter with Maharishi was at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in
1967, and I came away *not* so much impressed with him as I was by something he
said, which in retrospect is kinda poignant.
What I remember most about the day is that someone in the audience got up and
asked a question that basically boiled down to I've got this problem in my
life, Maharishi...what should I do?
His answer impressed me. He said something to the effect of, If I tell you
what to do it will make you *weaker*, not stronger. My advice might get you
through this current situation, but when the next one comes up, you'd be
looking for me to tell you what to do again. Better that you should meditate
and learn to make your own decisions.
Compare that 1967 advice to how he started running his students' lives shortly
thereafter. And, as he accurately intuited back then, him doing that made them
all weaker, not stronger.
From: inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives
My first meetings with Maharishi were unplanned and pleasant. I was on
TTC Arosa in '75
Being a country-boy from WI and in Arosa in June it was like a second spring
and I took opportunities to go gallivanting in the Alps. One time I returned
from a walk to find Maharishi had flown in on helicopter and was in lobby
'doing a line', I was lil sweaty and not dressed right and without flowers but
jumped in at end of line anyways . . . I did the Namaste thing and he gave me
some flowers and said something very cheerful.
The second time and on another day I was in a bit of a hurry and came around a
corner and saw the elevator doors closing so ran and squeezed in sideways and
thinking what a coup to make it in but to my horror I banged into Jerry Jarvis
who then almost banged into Maharishi. Jerry did one of his lil laughs and
Maharishi was quite impressed by my move. Maharishi was in his announcing of
Dawn of Age of Enlightenment phase, and he had sites where others were
experimenting with Sidhis and he was helicoptering all over Switzerland so I
suspect he was in a good mood. Anyways, that was my best elevator ride evah!
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Re: [FairfieldLife] First meetings with MMY (was Re: Marco Polo Arrives)
I might cut him some slack in that it took some time for him to find how lame westerners can be and they do need a nanny. :-D There's so much about MMY that if you have spent any time around Indians and particularly hear other Indians speak of western society as well as the silliness of many Indians then you start to see MMY as being typically Indian about things. It has nothing to do with enlightenment but just Indian culture. On 12/16/2014 09:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */My first encounter with Maharishi was at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in 1967, and I came away *not* so much impressed with him as I was by something he said, which in retrospect is kinda poignant. /* */ /* */What I remember most about the day is that someone in the audience got up and asked a question that basically boiled down to I've got this problem in my life, Maharishi...what should I do?/* */ /* */His answer impressed me. He said something to the effect of, If I tell you what to do it will make you *weaker*, not stronger. My advice might get you through this current situation, but when the next one comes up, you'd be looking for me to tell you what to do again. Better that you should meditate and learn to make your own decisions./* */ /* */Compare that 1967 advice to how he started running his students' lives shortly thereafter. And, as he accurately intuited back then, him doing that made them all weaker, not stronger. /* *From:* inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:53 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives My first meetings with Maharishi were unplanned and pleasant. I was on TTC Arosa in '75 Being a country-boy from WI and in Arosa in June it was like a second spring and I took opportunities to go gallivanting in the Alps. One time I returned from a walk to find Maharishi had flown in on helicopter and was in lobby 'doing a line', I was lil sweaty and not dressed right and without flowers but jumped in at end of line anyways . . . I did the Namaste thing and he gave me some flowers and said something very cheerful. The second time and on another day I was in a bit of a hurry and came around a corner and saw the elevator doors closing so ran and squeezed in sideways and thinking what a coup to make it in but to my horror I banged into Jerry Jarvis who then almost banged into Maharishi. Jerry did one of his lil laughs and Maharishi was quite impressed by my move. Maharishi was in his announcing of Dawn of Age of Enlightenment phase, and he had sites where others were experimenting with Sidhis and he was helicoptering all over Switzerland so I suspect he was in a good mood. Anyways, that was my best elevator ride evah!
Re: [FairfieldLife] First meetings with MMY (was Re: Marco Polo Arrives)
I only jist seem him one time. I was over at that thar MIU and we wuz on a course, it was that Taste of Utopia course and we had jist had some kinder meeting where that feller what used to be some kind-a general or sergeant major or somethin' was talking to us about what kinder programs they might have thar at MIU - I gave 'em a couple suggestions but they never did nuthin' with 'em. Anyway, I was jist settin' thar and there was about three or four hundred people in that there place and this feller I knowed from South Caroliner was near me and he let this noise outer his mouth somethin' like a cross between a moan and a holler and him and a bunch of other fellers rushed the stage cause this little feller in some white robes had come out with no fanfare and was jist settin'. Yep it was Marshy and he set there and let people git settled and then he commenced to jawin' about different stuff. Some of it was praisin' us all for bein' there and doing all that meditatin' in big groups like what he had wanted us ta do to start with. Then he talked about some other stuff but I can't remember what it was.Then the Big Marshy got up and pressed his palms together and stood looking out at the crowd. He turned slowly and passed his gaze from his center to his left, sweeping half the crowd with his gaze, I was in that half. As his gaze got closer I felt a tremendous wave of energy as strong as anything I have ever felt and the closer his gaze got the stronger the energy became. At the time I had never felt anything like it. As his gaze passed the energy faded. I was purty impressed and thought that's what an enlightened feller must do jist all the time. Nex nite he met with everybody and blabbered about some new project he was announcing and wanted something like 40 million dollars for whatever it was and Fred Zimmerman pledged about 4 million of it. I had my fist doubts about him that nite as he was not mentioning the LAST project he had been sayin' was so important and for which he had been dunning everyone for money for the last year or two. It apparently had vanished. So its taken me all this time to realize that a liar and huckster can have some potent energy too. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] First meetings with MMY (was Re: Marco Polo Arrives) I might cut him some slack in that it took some time for him to find how lame westerners can be and they do need a nanny. :-D There's so much about MMY that if you have spent any time around Indians and particularly hear other Indians speak of western society as well as the silliness of many Indians then you start to see MMY as being typically Indian about things. It has nothing to do with enlightenment but just Indian culture. On 12/16/2014 09:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: My first encounter with Maharishi was at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in 1967, and I came away *not* so much impressed with him as I was by something he said, which in retrospect is kinda poignant. What I remember most about the day is that someone in the audience got up and asked a question that basically boiled down to I've got this problem in my life, Maharishi...what should I do? His answer impressed me. He said something to the effect of, If I tell you what to do it will make you *weaker*, not stronger. My advice might get you through this current situation, but when the next one comes up, you'd be looking for me to tell you what to do again. Better that you should meditate and learn to make your own decisions. Compare that 1967 advice to how he started running his students' lives shortly thereafter. And, as he accurately intuited back then, him doing that made them all weaker, not stronger. From: inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives My first meetings with Maharishi were unplanned and pleasant. I was on TTC Arosa in '75 Being a country-boy from WI and in Arosa in June it was like a second spring and I took opportunities to go gallivanting in the Alps. One time I returned from a walk to find Maharishi had flown in on helicopter and was in lobby 'doing a line', I was lil sweaty and not dressed right and without flowers but jumped in at end of line anyways . . . I did the Namaste thing and he gave me some flowers and said something very cheerful. The second time and on another day I was in a bit of a hurry and came around a corner and saw the elevator doors closing so ran and squeezed in sideways and thinking what a coup to make it in but to my horror I banged into Jerry Jarvis who then almost banged
Re: [FairfieldLife] First meetings with MMY (was Re: Marco Polo Arrives)
I was there too, MJ, at that very moment! Hell, we might even have been sitting next to each other! I experienced MMY's presence as an extraordinary and quite unexpected peacefulness that settled all over me. It was quite wonderful, and unlike anything I had experienced before. All the niggling little irritations and difficult feelings one has in any given moment were completely gone. It really was like sitting in bliss. I have never forgotten it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : I only jist seem him one time. I was over at that thar MIU and we wuz on a course, it was that Taste of Utopia course and we had jist had some kinder meeting where that feller what used to be some kind-a general or sergeant major or somethin' was talking to us about what kinder programs they might have thar at MIU - I gave 'em a couple suggestions but they never did nuthin' with 'em. Anyway, I was jist settin' thar and there was about three or four hundred people in that there place and this feller I knowed from South Caroliner was near me and he let this noise outer his mouth somethin' like a cross between a moan and a holler and him and a bunch of other fellers rushed the stage cause this little feller in some white robes had come out with no fanfare and was jist settin'. Yep it was Marshy and he set there and let people git settled and then he commenced to jawin' about different stuff. Some of it was praisin' us all for bein' there and doing all that meditatin' in big groups like what he had wanted us ta do to start with. Then he talked about some other stuff but I can't remember what it was.Then the Big Marshy got up and pressed his palms together and stood looking out at the crowd. He turned slowly and passed his gaze from his center to his left, sweeping half the crowd with his gaze, I was in that half. As his gaze got closer I felt a tremendous wave of energy as strong as anything I have ever felt and the closer his gaze got the stronger the energy became. At the time I had never felt anything like it. As his gaze passed the energy faded. I was purty impressed and thought that's what an enlightened feller must do jist all the time. Nex nite he met with everybody and blabbered about some new project he was announcing and wanted something like 40 million dollars for whatever it was and Fred Zimmerman pledged about 4 million of it. I had my fist doubts about him that nite as he was not mentioning the LAST project he had been sayin' was so important and for which he had been dunning everyone for money for the last year or two. It apparently had vanished. So its taken me all this time to realize that a liar and huckster can have some potent energy too. From: Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] First meetings with MMY (was Re: Marco Polo Arrives) I might cut him some slack in that it took some time for him to find how lame westerners can be and they do need a nanny. :-D There's so much about MMY that if you have spent any time around Indians and particularly hear other Indians speak of western society as well as the silliness of many Indians then you start to see MMY as being typically Indian about things. It has nothing to do with enlightenment but just Indian culture. On 12/16/2014 09:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: My first encounter with Maharishi was at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in 1967, and I came away *not* so much impressed with him as I was by something he said, which in retrospect is kinda poignant. What I remember most about the day is that someone in the audience got up and asked a question that basically boiled down to I've got this problem in my life, Maharishi...what should I do? His answer impressed me. He said something to the effect of, If I tell you what to do it will make you *weaker*, not stronger. My advice might get you through this current situation, but when the next one comes up, you'd be looking for me to tell you what to do again. Better that you should meditate and learn to make your own decisions. Compare that 1967 advice to how he started running his students' lives shortly thereafter. And, as he accurately intuited back then, him doing that made them all weaker, not stronger. From: inmadison@... [FairfieldLife] mailto:inmadison@...[FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives My first meetings with Maharishi were unplanned and pleasant. I was on TTC Arosa in '75 Being a country-boy from WI and in Arosa in June it was like
