--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:41 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: When MIU was first announced... > > > > Thank you so much for sharing this Rick. > Very nice, and insightful ! > > You're welcome. It's always nice when you and I can appreciate one another. > > Someone on the conferancephone broke into the conversation in the > middle of a meeting and said; > > "Who are you really, Maharishi?" > > "I am an ordinary human being" > > - Bevan: "Well, this night we got a new definition of an ordinary > human being". > > You choose. Personally I liked Rick's story as rather telling. When > Maharishi said he/TM would create more enlightened people than > Buddha, it was just that - stating the simple facts without drawing > attention to himself. > > The greatness was and is for me in the simplicity. > > Despite all the fuss made around his public persona, I think that Maharishi > often privately longed to be treated more normally, and he treasured the few > close people whom he allowed to treat him that way, such as Vernon Katz, > Jemima Pittman, and Henry Nyberg. The latter once showed up in Courchevel > with his dog in his car, smoking a cigar. Maharishi was very happy to see > him and referred to him as "his best friend."
Henry Nyburg (Nyberg ?)came for a visit to Seelisberg a last time also, ofcourse with his dog. Someone rushed to Maharishi saying that Nyburg had arrived and asked where he should stay. Maharishi told him that he should have the biggest suite available whereupon the rather bewildered secretary wondered what to do with the dog. "Give the dog a suite also" was the calm reply. :-)
