Right, he wasn't hard on the ears. It just got boring after you've heard him say the same thing several times.
From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : I always found him hard to listen to also, whether in person or on tape. I spent almost four years at MIU as a full time student, not to mention SCI at Livingston Manor as well as Forest Academies (which seemed like months long - maybe they were, for all I remember) where we rounded and listened to tapes including those Sama Veda things -chanting, if I recall and I had many, many hours of listening to MMY. It's not that it was "hard" per se, just not dynamically engaging and after you figured out the basic gist of what he had to say for that particular lecture it was sort of like "okay, okay, I get it. Can we move onto the next subject?" But part of listening to him was, perhaps, the vibe or experience of hearing an enlightened man and he was not unpleasant, not hard on the ears just a bit of a snoozer. He seemed like a gentle and nice enough fellow but hardly engaging. You see, I guess I just wasn't cut out for the monastic/spiritual bookworm/guru-adoring life; I think I pretty much flunked out on that score. From: "awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 10:39 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Went to the Guru Purnima held by the local TM Center which was a pot luck event at the vastu home of one our members. It was fun. About 30 people, mostly older teachers but some younger members too. Came for the puja which is always powerful in a Shakti sense. Boring video of MMY followed. The local center has one of the newly minted teachers. Young guy about 30. I'm not sure we even have a local TM center in Victoria. I've never bothered to find out but pot lucks and socializing sounds good. 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