--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "anonyff" <anonyff@> wrote: > > > > > > Don't you all get tired of this endless inquiry-sSelf or otherwise? > > > Wasn't the initial instruction "meditate and act" without > > > intellectualizing life? > > > > Wasn't it once "Everyday is life, we don't pass up the present based > > > on the hopes of a more glorious future...what makes you think you'll > > > enjoy Unity Consciousness if you're not enjoying the process of > > > getting there..." MMY (paraphrase) > > > > Maybe, to just remind you that this forum is not excluding non TM > > practitionars. Self-inquiry is just a different path. > > The initial instruction has long been superceded with so many newer > instructions from Galactic Command that you need to be OCD to stay on > the program these days. That was my revelation of the week - how many > TBs I know in town are actually obsessive-compulsive. They > demonstrate it in stereotypical ways like collecting things and > phobias, but I see now why they've gotten deeper into tmo while I've > been distancing - they actually eat up all the mov't rules about > living: which yagyas to do at which time of the year after having > eaten which dosha balancing food while wearing which color gem, after > doing which sutras in which order at which time while being careful to > avoid which other bad vib people or places while living in their gold > and beige rectangle facing east ... It feeds/placates obsessiveness. > > Anyway, that's why many people in ffld got influenced by self-inquiry > stuff, which is actually so much less intellectual than what they were > used to and in most cases was a springboard to a more simple, inner > centered approach to spiritual life. > > My obsession of the week -- I still don't get rus who pick and choose > MMY quotes from the 60s that they like, but ignore everything else > he's been saying in copius volumes for the past 20 yrs. >
Mark At least in reference to the quote I paraphrased above, I don't kinow if it's that everything else of the last 20+ years is being ignored as opposed to considering how much more balanced that partucular advice offered by MMY was, especially, as you point out, to all the confining persnickety rules since. AnonyFF ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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 <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
