> 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.
Doesn't this whole belief, which was so common among fulltimers, really fly in the face of his whole teaching? It is a relative breaking of the connection with the fruits of action only and has nothing to do with your state of consciousness being established in being. It sounds like the kind of traditional notion that Maharishi would devote a whole lecture dispelling. But he never did and I'll offer a possible explanation why. Because he wasn't very good at follow through, he was an idea man. Simple as that, he was the typical entrepreneur who thought he could handle parts of his business that he wasn't good at. He allowed this belief to exist as a kind of implied teaching because it served his purposes. It kept people off center and running around all the time. He could play games making stuff up and watch everyone knock themselves out fulfilling his "desires." I don't think this was the most charming part of his personality. Some people gave up a lot to chase some of his bogus projects, ask Doug Henning. Oh yeah, we can't. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> 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. >
