--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote:
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> On Jun 4, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Randy Meltzer wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jun 4, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Randy Meltzer wrote:
> >>
> >>> So Vaj, if you don't consider him a maharishi or a yogi, what are
> >>> you doing on this forum? Do you feel its your job to somehow
> >>> bring the light of knowledge to all us ignorant Tmers?
> >>
> >> Randy, this is not a Maharishi list, it's for all sorts of different
> >> people, but what most seem to share in common is that at one time
> >> they had some connection to TM, Mahesh, FF, etc.
> >>
> >> I think it's pretty rude of YOU to assume that all TMers are
> >> ignorant.
> >>
> > What I meant by "us ignorant TMers" is the fact that your posts
> > mostly seem to be saying that you have more knowledge and experience
> > that most TMers, or at least the ones here. And to say this list is
> > not a Maharishi list is ridiculous. Sure its not an oficial TMo
> > list, but the reason pretty much everyone is on here is because they
> > have had, or do have a connection to TM
>
> I've found the type of people who learned TM in the past (and I'm sure
> the same now) to be very learned in many different fields, and many
> went on to profoundly represent any number of paths and realizations.
> I think this is true of many spiritual trips, they tend to draw a very
> high caliber person IMO.
>
> You should not get so up tight when we ruthlessly look into why
> someone has a name they have or whatever it is. We owe it to history
> to try to arrive at definite, honest answers for these questions.
> There's a reason these answers have been hidden. Being happy with just
> an advertising buy-line veneer is insane. The truth is often stranger,
> but definitely better than fiction. We should not settle for less,
> whether it's the Maharishi or Swami Rama boning their students or
> Swami Muktananda experimenting on 16 year olds or some Buddhist
> nutcase pumping Sarin gas into the Tokyo subways or some priest anally
> raping young boys or Chogyam Trungpa drunk out of mind extolling
> dharma. Veritas liberat.
>
> At the same time, it's also worth contemplating the bizarre paradox
> these things represent and the good some of these folks were to able
> catalyze. What's up with THAT? Who are the divine madmen and who are
> the merely mad and avaricious? These are all great questions.
>
I agree, great questions?
