Rick isn't making sly little digs about the behaviors he has witnessed. My take on it is that he has wrestled with this disconnect between the expectations he had for an Enlightened Master's behavior, and the actual behavior. It is a valid thing to puzzle over, given the descriptions presented by MMY himself about proper, or enlightened, action. There have been hundreds and hundreds of posts here over the years discussing this very topic, and lots of theories tossed about. For those of us who do not or cannot deny the behaviors that disappoint, there is a lot to think about and no real answer that the mind can provide.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rick just can't resist the sly little dig, the notion that MMY's behavior was > > "abnormal." Never seen anyone get impatient or angry at being asked dumb > questions? I'd say it was very normal. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <fairfieldlife@> wrote: > > > > on 3/21/06 11:31 PM, a_non_moose_ff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > We were in long rounding and someone passed up a note with a question > > > about bathing. They said a "teacher" had told them not to bath right > > > after asanas or mediating so "when can we bath, since we are doing > > > asanas or meditating all the time?" M. "hit the roof", "furious", > > > paraphrasing -- "what teacher is telling you this?!!!!! I didn't give > > > such instructions. Who is giving instructions counter to mine. You are > > > rounding all the time. Of course you will be bathing sometimes after > > > TM or asanas. Who told you not to do this???? " > > > > He mentioned this often on early courses. He said bathing would wash the > > ojas off the skin. What bothers me about this account is that he would often > > get so furious over trivial things. Something abnormal about that IMO. > > > 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/
