On Jul 20, 2005, at 1:25 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: > Do folks here think that the weird behavior of the TMO (such as > banning people from the dome because they saw Guru X or Y, or > adopting defacto uniforms for Movement men and women) is due to what > Maharishi speaks of; that the pure knowledge comes from the Guru and > is then heard in a less evolved state of consciousness by his/her > followers, who then reinterpret his/her knowledge as only they can, > and strange behavior results?
I could have sworn there was a message last week on this list (can't seem to find it now) where a person who I'd never seen post here told an (I assume) recent story of people who asked M. if it was OK to visit another teacher/teaching somewhere in Europe. He gave his blessing. I was surprised no one else even mentioned it. If this is in fact the case then either 1) he just getting older and doesn't care or 2) it was never a big deal in the first place and it was just the underlings getting out of hand and over zealous. What many teachers will object to is often called "mixing": taking a perfectly good teaching and indiscriminately mixing it with other teachings at your whim. One of my teachers liked to call it 'making Milanese soup'. Apparently in Milan there is an old tradition where for gatherings everyone brings a different ingredient and you make a soup out of it. Everyone would bring all these perfectly good ingredients and end up making something that was (in his opinion) quite unpalatable. Therefore, don't take the teachings and make them into Milanese soup. It must be a popular soup, people still make it all the time. You can smell it a mile away. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
