Oh, I thought you just used bashing the deceased Maharishi and his organization as an outlet for your apparently infinite frustrations. Now you have enlightened us, that your true purpose here on FFL is purely altrustic, to SET US FREE! It almost makes me weep with joy that you, the Turq, would graciously and compassionately openly give of your time, endlessly, unceasing and more than generously, so that we may one day see the light!! Teachers aren't necessary? OMG!!!
PS You spent a LOT more of YOUR life with teachers than I ever did. Just because you are hung up on this doesn't mean we all are. Please take your hero fantasies elsewhere Turq. If, on the other hand, you want to talk about stuff one on one with the rest of us, feel free to do so. As for the salvation delusion you have, sorry, but that's all it is. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" <steve.sundur@> wrote: > > > > > > I gotta say Barry, that I find it odd that so much of what > > > you see, write, and observe is a reference to the TMO. A > > > teacher you observe in a classroom triggers a TMO referral. > > > Ducks swimming in a river-trigger a TMO referral. Statement > > > from the Dalai Lama statement-triggers a TMO referral. You > > > got to wonder, what doesn't trigger a TMO referral. But > > > maybe this is the framework from which you view the world. > > > > Has it ever occurred to you that I'm writing for > > a forum of people who *themselves* see the world > > as one big Maharishi referral? As I've suggested > > before, what else am I going to write about *here*? > > Pondering your comment further, Steve, the 'ting > is from my side I'm not terribly interested in > *any* spiritual teachers. None. Not one. They > just don't float my boat. > > What fascinates me endlessly are the people whose > lives revolve *around* spiritual teachers. > > That's very, very, very odd. > > And I see a *commonality* in the ways that people > whose lives revolve around spiritual teachers think > and act. You see only the comments I make here on > FFL, where the "common denominator" is people whose > lives have revolved around Maharishi Mahesh Yogi > for decades. But I say the same sorts of things > on other forums, where the majority of people's > lives have revolved around other teachers. > > The teachers these people's lives depend upon may > be different. But the thinking of the followers > is always the same, and their actions when someone > myself asks one of them to question some of the > things they believe about the person their lives > revolve around is always the same. The teachers > don't fascinate me in the least, but *that* > fascinates me, the never-changing commonality > of it all. > > Just as a question, Steve, do you listen to MMY > tapes or watch MMY videos that are posted here? > I don't. I have zero interest in them. I don't think > I've heard his voice or seen his face in a video in > decades, and have no desire to. My interest is *not* > in him; it's with the people who give the impression > that they would have no life without him. And who, > in some cases, clearly don't, now that he's dead. >