--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WHY I don't agree is because of the real nature > of selfless service. It FREES you from having too > much attachment to any *expectations* regarding > the service performed. You do something nice for > someone, or for some charity or group you care > about, and you do it because it feels good JUST > to do it. You don't need to believe that doing > this good work is going to change the world; > you just do the work. > > And the cool part of all this is that if the > good work DOESN'T change the world, you don't > feel that you have to bitch and moan and claim > that your time was "wasted"
An excellent point. It sparks in my mind part of the explanation for MMY's crazy project binges. They are not so crazy if MMY was doing, among other things, the following three things -- which I am certain he was. He even said "Hey! This is what I am doing..." 1) breaking the link between fruit and action. Getting rid of the expectation. "Pititful is the man who lives for the fruit of action..." A Purusha, on a nice long beach walk told me of some the projects M had him and peers doing -- the buying huge old crumbling hotels, Blackstone, etc. He said doing such really breaks the above link. And an added part is that the project is begun with great haste, and urgency -- almost emergency -- its cast as the most important project in the world, and then after it got rolling and people got into it, M. would yank the rug out from under them, rip apart the act fruit link, by starting a new urgent project. 2) demonstrating the power of sankalpa -- what he explained in one of his last lectures (on MOU) that for a project, any big task, we can see the whole thing, like a flash IMO, at the beginning of the project. That lively glowing seed impulse. We don't see all of the small details because they are wrapped up in the seed. But we can feel the whole thing, see it in our minds eye, we "get it". This sankalpa, this seed, is precious and nurturing it brings the whole thing to fruition easily. (not that we are living for that fruit.) This is what he taught the rajas to do, he said. This is the administering in silence. And M was a machine gun firing a massive barrage of sankalpa golden bullets -- every hour of everyday. Well begun is half done. Just acknowledging and seeing the sankalpa as it arises is the "begun" part. Well begun. He planted all of these seeds. The next 3-4 generations of rajas have the opportunity to nurture each of those "old crazy projects". If done, it would be amazing if all of those seeds sprouted and matured into huge trees. M was the Johnny Appleseed of spiritual transformation. 3) expansive thinking. Related to 2) above, but goes to the style of thinking. Letting your mind and imagine soar with no limits. Like a child is apt to do, but doing this in an adult mind. He would say to a small group, "just keep your mind going with mine". Go with his flow as his imagination and mind soar to vast heights and depths. an Anything is possibly spirit. Doing such breaks the boundaries of the mind. Take these three things together (and perhaps a few others) and M's constant crazy project binges make sense, IMO, and puts it all in context. Seen in this light, his binges were a most wonderful and creative dance over 40 years. And a wonderful path for some who could keep up and withstand the craziness -- and enjoy inner fruit of the whole crazy exercise.
