--- On Tue, 7/29/08, R.G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: R.G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Letter to My Former Guru...the Maharishi
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 7:13 PM
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick
> Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of Peter
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:26 PM
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A Letter to My Former
> Guru...the
> Maharishi
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > When I came to the end of this letter, I was so
> surprised to
> see that
> > it was Joel writing the letter. Joel makes some very
> good points,
> but this
> > whole thing about celibacy. What was that? Maharishi
> to the best of
> my
> > knowledge never made any direct statements about being
> celibate to
> men on
> > Purusha. Of course this was implied and present in all
> the "yogi"
> literature
> > people read, but never directly from MMY. So many
> people lost their
> bearings
> > in the TM movement because they stopped trusting their
> own
> judgment, their
> > own experience. They allowed themselves to become
> psychologically
> enslaved
> > by the increasingly bizarre perspective of MMY and
> never allowed
> themselves
> > to trust their own little intuitive voice that was
> screaming at
> them.
> > For those that don't know Joel, he is a very
> good man, a little
> > fanatical at times like we all were at some time, but
> a great sense
> of humor
> > and a warm heart. One of the good guys!
> > -Peter
> >
> > Maharishi said plenty about celibacy, starting an
> Poland Spring,
> 1970 in my
> > experience. Whenever the subject of sex came up, he
> would first say
> that he
> > didn't know anything about it. Then, often in the
> next breath, he
> would talk
> > about his desire to assemble a group of guys who
> wanted to live that
> > lifestyle. Once Purusha was formed, there were plenty
> of meetings
> in which
> > he fielded questions and encouraged the guys to
> maintain celibacy.
Not in the first year of American Purusha. Absolutely not.
> I asked
> > him about it personally one time (with regard to
> nocturnal
> emissions) and he
> > gave me some advice (not to eat too much at night).
> You were never
> on
> > Purusha were you Peter?
Yes I was, the first year that it started in DC and then onto Fairfield.
> I know from working at the University, and other
> experiences, that
> this did tended to be a problem in the movement.
> And I don't think Maharishi really knew much about sex.
> He was obviously not sexually repressed himself,
> Otherwise, he wouldn't have had this amazing precence
> and Shakti...
> Most people aren't ready to be celibate.
> Sex and emotions are the main obstacles, so I would agree
> with the
> importance with dealing with these issues...
I agree with you completely.
> And I think the movement would have been more
> 'powerful' and
> more 'integrated into American society, if these two
> powerful aspects
> of life had been dealt with more directly.
> I have had to use other methods and experiences to heal
> some of these
> past emotional and sexual things, and am still in the
> process of
> healing.
> I think much of the problem in 'Celebate
> Communities',
> Whether it be Christian or Buddhist, you will find,
> The repressed Shakti, and lifelessness, that repressing
> emotions and
> sexual energy produces...
> Probably because Maharishi was born into a different
> culture, and was
> already at a high level at birth, and then coming in direct
> contact
> with a Guru like the one he had,
> Gave him a particularly powerful path, to get to a very
> high state of
> enlightenment fairly quickly...
> I've heard he experienced C.C. within three years, or
> something like
> that...
> R.G.
CC isn't all its cracked-up to be. Unity's the ticket!
>
>
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