Friends, paraphrasing old Thoreau here I feel I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be by me unavoidable. We preserve the so-called peace of our community by deeds of material petty violence every day. Look at the policeman's billy and handcuffs! Look at the jail! Look at the gallows! Look at the chaplain of the regiment! We are hoping only to live safely on the outskirts of this provisional army. So we defend ourselves and our hen-roosts, and maintain the ignorant materialism of slavery. I know that the mass of my countrymen think that the only righteous use that can be made of Sharp's rifles and revolvers is to fight duels with them, when we are insulted by other nations, or to hunt Indians, or shoot fugitive slaves with them, or the like. I think that for once the Sharp's rifles and the revolvers were employed in a righteous cause. The tools were in the hands of one who could use them in old John Brown's or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's in waging the transcendentalist's war on spiritual ignorance. Were they perfect, probably not. Were they great and instrumental in the cause of equal rights for all, yes both were. I shout, !Jai Old John Brown! !Jai Maharishi Mahesh Yogi! -Buck in the Dome, a radical transcendentalist.
"The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote: he certainly didn't put an end to your ignorance, he enhanced it Buck wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Those who Reject Transcendentalism are over-burdened by Cognition Inhibition To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 7:01 PM Maharishi lived to put an end to ignorance, Maharishi lived to put an end to ignorance, Maharishi lived to put an end to ignorance; And, his Teaching goes marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah; His Teaching goes marching on! Dear Friends, Maharishi's ashes are a floatin' in the Ganges, Maharishi's ashes are a floatin' in the Ganges,Maharishi's ashes are a floatin' in the Ganges;And his Teaching goes flowing on. Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory, hallelujah; His Teaching goes marching on! -Buck in the Dome [ A beautiful illustration and fair updated Paraphrasing of the old John Brown's Body text and tune. See full text of John Brown's Body at: http://www.icelandichorse.info/salemfugitiveslaves.html http://www.icelandichorse.info/salemfugitiveslaves.html http://www.icelandichorse.info/johnbrownsbody.html http://www.icelandichorse.info/johnbrownsbody.html ] mjackson74 writes: Why don't you just say "Our Lord and Savior Marshy, only through Our Lord and Savior Marshy do we come to the Father." Buck writes: MJ, I can't speak for you or your friends poor or sad experiences.I am glad that you can allow for the possibility of my ownsatisfying experience with it all. My experience with the TM Movement and around Maharishi has been one of quite satisfying spirituality. Possibly though when I began at an early age I was never enmeshed as a devotee but rather as just a practitioner and participant that way and not much dependent on the organization other than for its facilitating meditating and group meditations. All along it either worked or if it would have not then I would have moved on. That may well have been in the nature of my whole Iowa upbringing, different from others background. But in the meantime we all did a lot of large and great things with TM. Like dragging science in to spirituality. As a transcendentalism movement we were successful leaving a foot print on larger culture for all the campaigning we did at a time out on the front line. It was revolutionary. I was glad to have been on the 'long march' with Maharishi in his time. You can't take that away from us for all of your blanket carping. We do share a brother-hood as transcendentalists and Fairfield is still a fabulous place to live for its being a meditator's place. It's a highly spiritual place and the MUM University here is still a visionary's place to go to school along with others of like high-mind. I'd go to school there. It is a place and an organization to be proud of even now. Which would you rather experience: living the paradox or understanding it to your satisfaction? I am here to plead Maharishi's cause with you. I plead not for his life, but for his character — his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly, and is not his in the least. Some twenty-one hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was hung again by someone on FairfieldLife at Yahoo-Groups. These are the two ends of a chain which is not without its links. He is not Old Maharishi any longer; he is an angel of light. !Jai Maharishi Mahesh Yogi! -Buck in the Dome Om Om Om Shanti