Thanks for the story. Comments interleaved below.
Benjamin Collins wrote: > > My daughter is 10. She is tall and blonde > and has bright eyes and a quick wit. Age 10 is the golden age of childhood, isn't it? In Waldorf schools they study classical Greek culture in 5th grade, and hold an interschool Olympics. It's the perfect study for kids of that age. (In grade 4, by comparison, the perfect study is Norse mythology.) > She is in the 5th grade in the Sherman Oaks Center > for Enriched Studies which means that she had a lot > of homework, too much homework. Transfer to a Waldorf school where they keep the homework to a minimum so kids can hang with their families, practice their instruments and get to bed early. (Sorry -- it was too juicy an opportunity to proselytize.) > I did my TM puja and felt the wonderful feeling > that I enjoyed when I taught regularly The last time I taught was to teach the progeny, too, and it was indeed delightful. > I am proud of my daughter. Now she meditates > during her bus ride each day. Already she is feeling > less stressed, less tired, and happier. > That makes me happy. Lucky you! My kids refuse to meditate. I guess I didn't charge their mantras with enough shakti. > When I was doing the puja > ...I could feel with the same certainty that I had > back then, that TM was special; that MMY's devotion > to Guru Dev was deserved and rightly inspirational. I still believe all that. > I thought about FFL. And it seems to me that we are all > suffering from the same thing; a broken heart. We all believed and we > all had evidence that our belief was not misplaced. After all, we're > still meditating, still hoping that Maharishi is right. > > But not so many think so any more and FFL is a collection of people > like me who have no reason to believe anything. We're heartbroken, > disappointed, and disillusioned. Well, yes, I agree there's some disillusionment, but at the same time there are people in this forum who make a good case for being awakened, and there are reports of others waking up, which leads me to believe the Age of Enlightenment is happening as promised. But as usually happens, expectations come true in ways different than expected. Fairfield Life isn't all about processing the disappointment of youthful idealism. It also plays a part in realizing those ideals. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
