--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I gotta tell you, I'm finding Chopra's several eulogies about MMY's > passing much more genuine and heartfelt than most...and that includes > practically everything coming out of the TMO. Indeed, may I even say > they are more heartfelt than even Nader Rama Tony's official words. > > Anyone else feel that way? > > Some of the things he has said also make me suspect that what Judy has > been saying all these years (at least I think it's been Judy, sorry if > I'm wrong here) has been correct: that when Chopra split from the TMO > that he formally agreed not to publicly make any declarations tying > anything he's done in with MMY or the TMO. I'm referring in particular > to his words to the effect that everything he has learned he has > learned from MMY. >
Chopra's words were nice, but failed to mention that much of the accumulated wealth of the TMO was spent *outside* India" and that much of it has been spent to establish the permanence of the organization around the world, rather than merely to revive things in India. A subtle dig and perhaps he didn't mean it consciously, but there nonetheless. When Chopra first mentioned the USSR, he gave all credit to MMY for getting meditation there, and failed to mention his own hand in that. My first thought was "how noble" but I've realized that again, it puts MMY's behavior into an abstract, without practical benefit, light. Which fits in with Chopra's own perception of himself as being the accomplisher of great deeds in ways his old teacher couldn't because he was too "pie in the sky." Lawson
