Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A book you might enjoy

[Vaj]

On Nov 10, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Peter wrote: --- Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 1:08 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Peter wrote: Rick, thanks for posting the files. I love the MMY and Nandkishore story. It reminds me of the story of one time MMY was at MIU in a small meeting and suddenly he turned to the woman assigned to take notes and asked her to explain how she was taking notes. She described to him what she was doing and he angerly said, who told you to do it that way? She replied, you did! MMY said he had not told her to do anything like that at all. She insisted that he had and he kept on saying he had not. She was finally on the verge of tears and she gave up and said that he hadn't told her to do that way. MMY said, very good and told her to continue doing it the way he had told her, just as she had described. This is very interesting, esp. given the recent discussion on questionable research. What would a researcher, who was a die- hard student, do if they were told by their teacher "this is the way it is", even though it contradicted their findings...? Very interesting. If I saw them as my teacher, I'd give up on the teacher. If I saw them as my Master, I'd adjust my thinking. That's exactly what the people who drank the kool-aid in Guyana did. Scary. Yes, but you bring it to an absurd extreme. I think few would follow a "master's" directive to kill themselves. I wouldn't care if it was a "test" or not, I wouldn't do it. The dance with a master is as complex as one's attachments. MMY in these examples is just honing in for a specific attachment "kill." Partly I was, for example there is the story in Swami Rama's biography of him jumping into a dangerous river at his master bidding. I was also remembering the stories I heard on retreat years ago from Mike Love's tech who spent a lot of time with Mike and M. M would single him out and talk in hypnotic tones, display various siddhis, etc. ... anything to get this Buddhist to change boats. He in no uncertain terms made it clear that he wanted to control him. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.