> > Apparently it's much more difficult to actually > > provide a link to the Maharishi on YouTube. LoL!!! > > turquoiseb: > Mike Myers is a better actor, as well as possibly > a more credible guru. > > :-) > Maybe so, but just for the record, I love 'charlatans' like the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Zen Master Rama, Swami Rama, and Deepak Chopra. I learn something everyday and learn something from everyone.
But, these guys obviously can't hold a candle to all of your life's accomplishments! :-) > More seriously, is there anyone here who would not > be comfortable with one of Maharishi's private > journals emerging -- in his own handwriting -- in > which he admits that he considered *himself* a > charlatan and a fake guru from Day One? It wouldn't > faze me in the least, no more than it would if a > similar journal was found penned by Rama - Frederick > Lenz, or even by the Buddha himself. > > Only those whose egos are so large that they > think that no one could possibly fool them would > IMO be upset with such a discovery. Me, I know > better. I know full well -- from experience -- that > I can be fooled by a good act, a good spiel, and > a good costume. It's *no problem* for me to admit > that. IMO the very thing that allows charlatanry > to proliferate and succeed is the suckers' ego- > based inability to believe that they could be > fooled. That belief is synonymous for me with > "already being a fool." > So, now you know why MMY was always laughing and giggling! It must be a real high to realize that people like you were hanging on his every word, when the instructions for TM are so simple, that I could teach TM to about anyone in a couple minutes - you and some others spent what, a decade trying to learn the mechanics of consciousness and at times you still don't seem to understand much.
