--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> And for most people, Maharishi is nearly as abstract as Guru Dev. > > >> Sure, one sees his tapes and read his writings a lot more, but > > >> there's still plenty of room for disconnect between the man as > > >> he is and one's critical or idealized > > >> conceptions of him, as evidenced by TM-Ex on the one hand and > > > Briganteism on the other. > > > > > > Rick you are a lost yogi. Have you ever heard Maharishi or Amma or > > > any great guru make statements like this about another person? > > > Even if it were true (and its not, it is stupid made-up malicious > > > lies), an enlightened person would not take any interest in it. > > > > Even if what is true? All I'm saying is that people tend to build > > elaborate antasies about their gurus which wouldn't hold up if they > > had the opportunity to interact with them at close range. They do > > the same thing with Amma. What's malicious about that observation? > > Yup. In forty years of grazing at the spiritual smorgasbord, > I can say that one trend holds true across *all* organizations > with a living teacher: those who are most fanatical about the > teacher and the teachings have spent the least time in close > proximity to the teacher. The greater the degree of ideal- > ization, the less likely it is that the individual has spent > any time around the teacher on a day-to-day basis.
Probably in micro form, comparatively, I have seen the same. It raises an interesting question. Bob and Lupius and Off, how much time have you spent with MMY alone? in a group less than 5? In a group less than 20? How much time at all? 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/
