--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > By famous people, I meant people like David Lynch, > > Clint Eastwood, Howard Stern, Donvan, Jerry Seinfeld, > > and so on, all of whom have been meditating in the > > 4 decade range. > > Lawson, don't you *ever* get tired of being a > perpetual groupie, and gaining your sense of > self worth by associating yourself in your mind > with people you've never met, and with whom the > only thing you have in common is that you all > once learned a simple, rudimentary technique > of meditation? > > You demonstrate a classic syndrome among TMers, > one that started with *Maharishi's* groupie-love. > The man was just *shameless* about sucking up to > people who were famous or rich, and then trying > to use *their* fame, or their celebrity, or their > names to enhance his own, as if some of their > creativity and success could "rub off on him" > by association. > > The issue is NOT what a few cherry-picked "success > stories" (most of whom were famous LONG before > they ever learned TM) have done with their lives. > It's what YOU -- and others like you who keep > trotting out this "Just look at the famous TMers" > meme -- have done with your lives. > > Me, I'm just an ordinary, garden-variety writer > who currently gets paid fairly well to shuttle > back and forth between the Netherlands and France. > I've never claimed to be "enlightened," and have > no organization I'm part of or "represent," and > no "image" to maintain. So I can just be myself. > There is no one I even *could* suck up to in an > attempt to bolster my supposed "specialness." > > But YOU GUYS seem to fall back on this "Just look > at the famous TMers" meme any time someone asks > YOU what you've accomplished with YOUR lives. > > What's up with that? It couldn't possibly be that > you *haven't* accomplished very much with your > lives, could it? It couldn't be that few people > you even have had *contact with* in the TMO have > ever done much with their lives, could it? > > But it doesn't matter, as long as there are one > or two "famous TMers" you can point at whenever > the issue comes up. Like Paul McCartney, who only > claimed to have stopped smoking dope a year or so > ago. Or David Lynch, who hasn't done a film other > than music videos, festival trailers, or shorts > since 2007. Or Donovan, whose new album "Shadows > Of Blue" was self-published and is so obscure you > can't even find it on Amazon. Clint, to his credit, > is still trying to make movies, but his production > seems to be in financial jeopardy, possibly as a > result of his "talk to the chair" Eastwooding > routine. Jerry Seinfeld? Well, to his credit, > the writing for "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee" > was nominated for an Emmy, but other than that he > doesn't seem to have done much of anything except > guest performances and voice-overs since his show > went off the air in 1998. > > Seems to me that if you want to continue to gauge > your *own* self worth by associating yourself with > TMers, you're gonna have to search a bit further > to find any who are "worthy." > > An alternative, of course, might be actually DOING > something yourself, instead of living on fantasies > based on a dogma that is not and was never true.
Once in a while Barry, you simply need to just fuck off. >
