These were two separate quotes (the one about the exhaust from a bus). The (other) quote was fairly close to the way I stated it below. Rick, please chime in with details. We were sitting in a room with Maharishi in Livingston Manor when he came for an unannounced visit, not very many, maybe 100+ give or take. He was really po'd about a lot of stuff. They had let many repairs go at LM because no one wanted to take responsibility for having wells dug/repaired, etc. I guess because of the money. Lots of little things like that this kept coming up.
Somebody-Rick claims him-so he will remember more accurately what precipitated Maharishi's respone. He launched into the fact that getting enlightnened was a process and as near as I can remember he said: "Every day is life. We don't postpone the present based on the hopes of a more glorious future...It doesn't just happen all at once, it's a process...what makes you think that if you don't enjoy the process you will enjoy being in Unity Consciousness..." He spoke some more. Rick can add his recollection. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "anonyff" <anonyff@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" > > <markmeredith@> 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 The initial instruction has long been superceded with so many newer 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 > > Does anybody have the full text? Its also one of my favourate quotes > that I had written down in my small notebook from movement times. I'm > not sure if its the same one that says that when the time is ripe the > chirping of a bird, or the smoke of a rotten bus maybe the stimulus to > enlightenment. Btw. he said many nice things, even at the time when I > left the movement, which is not yet 20 years. Just these weren't the > things that got published. They were sort of stray remarks, but very > telling. > ------------------------ 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/
