Friends, paraphrasing old Thoreau here I feel I do not wish to kill nor to be
killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be by
me unavoidable. We preserve the so-called peace of our community by deeds of
material petty violence every day. Look at the policeman's billy and handcuffs!
Look at the jail! Look at the gallows! Look at the chaplain of the regiment! We
are hoping only to live safely on the outskirts of this provisional army. So we
defend ourselves and our hen-roosts, and maintain the ignorant materialism of
slavery. I know that the mass of my countrymen think that the only righteous
use that can be made of Sharp's rifles and revolvers is to fight duels with
them, when we are insulted by other nations, or to hunt Indians, or shoot
fugitive slaves with them, or the like. I think that for once the Sharp's
rifles and the revolvers were employed in a righteous cause. The tools were in
the hands of one who could use them in old John Brown's or Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi's in waging the transcendentalist's war on spiritual ignorance.
Were they perfect, probably not. Were they great and instrumental in the cause
of equal rights for all, yes both were.
I shout,
!Jai Old John Brown!
!Jai Maharishi Mahesh Yogi!
-Buck in the Dome, a radical transcendentalist.
The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is
significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up
in small things, and then it will be yours. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote:
he certainly didn't put an end to your ignorance, he enhanced it
Buck wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Those who Reject Transcendentalism are
over-burdened by Cognition Inhibition
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 7:01 PM
Maharishi
lived to put an end to
ignorance,
Maharishi
lived to put an end to
ignorance,
Maharishi
lived to put an end to
ignorance;
And,
his Teaching goes marching on.
Glory,
glory, hallelujah,
Glory,
glory, hallelujah,
Glory,
glory, hallelujah;
His Teaching goes marching on!
Dear Friends,
Maharishi's ashes are a
floatin' in the Ganges,
Maharishi's ashes are a
floatin' in the Ganges,Maharishi's ashes are a floatin' in the
Ganges;And his Teaching goes
flowing on.
Glory,
glory, hallelujah,
Glory,
glory, hallelujah,
Glory,
glory, hallelujah;
His Teaching goes marching on!
-Buck
in the Dome
[
A beautiful illustration and fair updated Paraphrasing of
the old John Brown's
Body text and tune. See full text of John Brown's
Body at:
http://www.icelandichorse.info/salemfugitiveslaves.html
http://www.icelandichorse.info/salemfugitiveslaves.html
http://www.icelandichorse.info/johnbrownsbody.html
http://www.icelandichorse.info/johnbrownsbody.html
]
mjackson74
writes:
Why don't you just
say Our Lord and Savior Marshy, only through Our Lord
and Savior Marshy do we come to the
Father.
Buck
writes:
MJ, I can't speak for you or
your friends poor or sad
experiences.I
am glad that you can allow for the possibility of my
ownsatisfying experience
with it all. My experience with the
TM
Movement and around Maharishi has been one of quite
satisfying
spirituality. Possibly though when I began at an early age
I was
never enmeshed as a devotee but rather as just a
practitioner and
participant that way and not much dependent on the
organization other than
for its facilitating meditating and group meditations. All
along it
either worked or if it would have not then I would have
moved on.
That may well have been in the nature of my whole Iowa
upbringing,
different from others background. But in the
meantime we all did a
lot of large and great things with TM. Like dragging
science in to
spirituality. As a transcendentalism movement we were
successful
leaving a foot print on larger culture for all the
campaigning we did
at a time out on the front line. It was revolutionary. I
was glad
to have been on the 'long march' with Maharishi in
his time. You
can't take that away from us for all of your blanket
carping. We do
share a brother-hood as transcendentalists and Fairfield is
still a
fabulous place to live for its being a meditator's
place. It's a
highly spiritual place and the MUM University here is still
a
visionary's place to go to school along with others of
like
high-mind. I'd go to school there. It is a place and
an
organization to be proud of even now.
Which
would you rather experience: living the paradox or
understanding it
to your satisfaction?
I am here to plead Maharishi's cause with you. I
plead not for his
life, but for his character
