I always have a desire to go back there. I was a MIU student from '74 to '78; then Purusha for a year there and finally TSR from '83 to '89. Things seem very different now.
--- On Sat, 5/22/10, Buck <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Buck <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spirit a priori > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Saturday, May 22, 2010, 8:33 PM > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > Peter <drpetersutp...@...> wrote: > > > > > > No need to reduce other paths to "Transcendental > Meditation." This a habit that Maharishi had that, IMHO, > cultivated arrogance and separation from others not doing > what "we" did. The TM/ TM-Sidhi program offers a great > sadhana or spiritual practice, but it failed to address > necessary critical behaviors while on the path towards > Realization. This failure to cultivate these values led to > the profound dysfunction of the TMO and ultimately to its > failure (failure is a relative term here. The TMO and MMY > can also be seen as very successful in other contexts). TM > is not the "gold standard" of spiritual practices. It simply > is one of many bodies of yogic practices that contributes to > increasing sattva in the body/mind. I don't believe there is > a "gold standard" in any objective sense. > >  Also, I would like to apologize ahead of time for > my reasonable tone. I will get shrill and irrational if that > is more appropriate. > > > > Pete, actually you'd like this. What I notice is that > as an old and practicing spiritual group here (decades) > mostly we've had to take care of ourselves over the years > the way you are talking. Sometimes something more than > what is in the TM checking notes may be helpful. That > got done by folks here in relationships with some of the > different saints who have come through and also some of the > spiritually talented folks here locally embedded. > > Often a careful reading of the back page of the Weekly > Reader and the 'schedule of events' inside can find you the > services of those folks locally. The bigger > promotional healers like Trivedi or John Douglas are > visitors that way who have been helpful. But locally > there are some folks who have been quite helpful too to even > the highest echelons of campus and TM movement people as > they have needed some help spiritually along the way. > > > Looking in on Fairfield the Weekly Reader is a good window > to see in through. Unfortunately it does not work on > the web. The hardcopy is quite good every week > (published on Thursdays) for mapping out the spiritual > practice community here. There are a lot of good > people who work at it and are having fine experiences, thank > you. > > So, it is not like it is not happening. TM is great > as a starting point and then there is spiritual discipline > and discernment with what you do with it. There > actually has been a lot of experience of that here. > That aspect is part of the back story. It is an active > spiritual practice place and not monolithic at all. > You'd like it. > > Jai Adi Shankara, > =Buck in FF > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com > > >
