Sometimes there are extenuating circumstances. I quit going
to the Dome when I was on staff due to a really serious allergy to
formaldehyde, which in those days at least was a major component in making
foam.
The longer I was in the Dome, the worse I felt.
So I stopped
going. I did program by myself in my pod room and felt great both in and out of
program. As twice a day in the Dome was part of the staff program, I was called
in to the Personnel Director’s office (Bill Sands) and he gave me a serious
talk and threatened me with dismissal if I didn’t start toeing the line.
I told him about the allergy and he said it didn’t matter,
rules were rules. I showed him the letter I had from my allergy doctor (Allen
Lieberman in Charleston SC) saying that I had to avoid formaldehyde exposure.
Bill
said it still didn’t matter. Rules were rules. No exceptions.
So I returned to the Dome and after a couple days started
feeling like crap again. So I thought about things and decided to write a
letter to then TM Sidhi Administrator Greg Wilson and told him my story and
sent him a copy of the letter from my allergy doctor.
A
nd a couple weeks later to my surprise he wrote me a letter
back giving me permission to do program in my room, tho he suggested that I
might consider serving MIU in some other capacity since Dome attendance was
part of staff program. So I quit going to the Dome again.
A couple weeks went by and I was called into Bill Sands office
again, with my letters in my pocket. After he gave me hell and pretty much told
me my time at MIU was over, I told him I had permission from Greg Wilson and
showed him my letter, or rather a copy of it, I wisely had the original in my
room.
Bill was completely discombobulated and hemmed and hawed and
puffed and blustered but had to back down, but he didn’t like it. So I went
back to doing program in my room and had great experiences and was much more
effective in activity for about eight months until Bill found a way to get rid
of me.
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From: Buck <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:52 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: The Science of Compassion, for Wednesday
This being Compassionate Posting Wednesday on FFL where ne'er a negative word
is written, I am not going to go on at all about just how stoopid and
undeserving it is that meditators who even live in Fairfield do not come to the
group meditation. No, I'll save that for tomorrow and then may be also
consider the fallen away and outright meditation quitters out in the world too;
all those who have fell off the meditation wagon and even walked away entirely.
I am excercising a lot of compassion for them all right now today,
-Buck in the Dome
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