--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for posting this, Turq. > > After reading another thread about MMY's zany behavior, it occurred > to me that maybe Mahesh himself anticipated that a householder would > spend only a very small slice of his enlightenment path with the TMO > (additional time with tm itself, but not with TMO). By pushing > people constantly, he had to know he would push them out of the TMO > envelope, and onto something else.
There is a case to be made for this. My reason for not believing it completely is how Maharishi tended to *treat* the people he'd "pushed out of the nest." If he had continued to refer to them with respect, that would indicate one thing; to refer to them in derogatory terms, as he often did, seems to indicate another. > May I ask who was this smorgasbord-style teacher you had? He was a controversial spiritual teacher by the name of Rama (Frederick Lenz). The Wikipedia page on him gives an overview of both positive and negative. I try not to talk about him here because people get a little hinky when I do. Pretty much anything I had to say about the dude I said in the book I wrote about him. It's on the Web, at http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > Therefore we had all developed different predi- > > lections, spiritually. He presented lots of differ- > > ent paths and options to us because he didn't think > > that there was such a thing as "One size fits all." > > Instead he seemed to figure that if he threw out > > enough breadcrumbs, sooner or later each of us would > > find the breadcrumbs that tasted best *to us*, and > > would follow them down the path that was best *for > > us*. I think he was onto something. > > >
