--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > One of the things that seems to happen when one becomes > focused on one particular spiritual teacher is that over > time the people who do this seem to lose touch with the > real world and what *it* would think of that teacher. > > For example, my bet is that if you walked up to anyone > at random on the street in America and asked them who > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was, at this point in time 70% > would have no idea. Another 29% would say, "Wasn't he > some Indian holy man that the Beatles hung out with > for a while?" Maybe -- and this is being generous -- > 1% would have heard anything about him *other than* > his association with the Beatles. > > Zero percent would reply, "The most important person in > my life," or "The bestest, most important spiritual > teacher ever to grace the planet Earth," or "An avatar > who single-handedly shifted the world from ignorance > into an Age of Enlightenment." My bet is that you asked > this question of a random sampling of 100,000 people, > in any town in America other than, say, Fairfield Iowa, > *not a single person* would reply with the answers in > this paragraph, or anything even remotely like them. > > And yet we hear things like this from long-term TMers, > who seem to actually think it's "normal." > > I get the feeling sometimes that many of the frogs who > believe this spent far too much time in a very, very > small pond, and need to get out more.
You can say the same thing about Dr.Paul Dirac. In fact, what you say is just about true any philosopher, physicist, composer etc. We all live in ponds that we choose. It is always good to leave our pond for awhile but somehow we always return to what we like. >
