--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <waybac...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <wayback71@> wrote: > > > > > > > If Tm is in straits now, > > > > It's not, > > > > and Judith's book rings true, > > > > Who cares ? > > > > it may take a toll on the TMO as people get really upset or at least > > filled with doubts. > > > > They won't and why should they ? > > Only small fish, and non-meditators like I understand you are get upset by > > small things. > > > Nabby, > 1. I am a long-time meditator, a teacher of TM in fact > 2. I have suspected for many many many years that the stuff purportedly in > Judith's book is true - even way before the topic was brought up here on FFL > 3. Yet I still think TM is powerful and do it and am eternally grateful to > Maharishi for so much > 4. So, it has been a struggle to integrate, or maybe not at times, the > conflicting viewpoints > 5. The big question remains: who really is the true believer, the devotee, > in all this - the person who denies things they don't want to know or refuses > to consider anything "negative"? or the person who tries to deal with the > information they find difficult to accept?
I am interested to understand why people find it difficult to accept. Perhaps a bit jaw dropping at first. But after the first "really!?", why is it particularly odd or difficult to digest? And I suppose, its a relevant questions: should a teacher be entitled to a private life? Entitled to some parts of life that are of no business to students or anyone else. I never heard MMY say he was celibate. Why should he? Other than when he was Bal Bramachari Mahesh. And then he changed his name. Which is a pretty big clue in itself. A practice useful for a student is not necessarily still useful for an adult. Like many of us, he may have not have gone out of his way to correct some peoples misperceptions. Actually he spent all day doing that -- misperceptions about "the path". But it could have been an infinite job to try to straighten people out in every area of his and their lives. > I don't have the answer to this, but I do wonder just how true believers will > respond to some info that is not so "light." >
