Or maybe because he didn't have a clue at all about what tantric
traditions are. If he did he might have wound up booted from the
movement. Gotta keep "the purity of the teaching" ya know. :-D
On 10/09/2013 08:24 AM, Share Long wrote:
Testing. Richard, maybe Domash didn't mention the tantric origins
because Westerners can have such a narrow view of what tantra is. And
that view does not include being a recluse!
On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 10:18 AM, Richard J. Williams
<pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
It sounds to me like you wanted to believe there was pie up in the
sky, but you failed to get any. Maybe you sucked as a baker or maybe
you just couldn't sit still to do a simple kindergarden yoga pose. Go
figure.
Maybe you just conned yourself - at any rate, it must have been a
powerful experience, since you're still talking about it after all
these years. LoL!
On 10/8/2013 12:26 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
you knew him better than I did, but nah, it wasn't revolutionary,
just another con man using the best con man's trick in the world,
i.e. the best cons are ones that contain some truth, or have
something that is of some value.
Let's not forget that the term con artist means confidence artist.
A *confidence trick* is an attempt to defraud a person or group after
first gaining their confidence, in the classical sense of trust.
In David Mamet <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet>'s film
/House of Games <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Games>/, the
main con artist gives a slightly different description of the
"confidence game". He explains that, in a typical swindle, the con
man gives the mark /his own/ confidence, encouraging the mark to in
turn trust /him/. The con artist thus poses as a trustworthy person
seeking another trustworthy person.
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<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, Michael Jackson wrote:
>
> what about it was revolutionary? He wasn't the only Indian guru
> who came to the states and europe to promote his schtick you know.
It was revolutionary in that he found a way to present a technique
of meditation designed for beginners, as a mere starting point from
which to explore more interesting techniques, as the "end point"
of meditation itself. In other words, he presented a kindergarten
level of meditation as "the best, most effective form of meditation
on the planet," and convinced millions of people it was true.
I'd call the chutzpah of that pretty revolutionary, wouldn't you? :-)
