Yes. Check with me before you get any smart ideas to venture out from
your Shallolalaland.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price <bobpriced@...> wrote:
>
> Does this mean "going deep" is the same as being different?
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ravi Yogi raviyogi@...
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 2:12:47 AM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Small Pond Syndrome
>
>
> Â
> So get out of your Shallow Pond Syndrome.
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote:
> >
> > The amount of fish doesn't translate to Small. It is the depth, very
few
> > fish venture deep. The millions of small fish at the surface can't
> > fathom the depth. You obviously find security, solace and strength
in
> > numbers.
> > --- 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.
> > >
> >
>
