--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- 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. > > > > Is it possible MMY misunderstood the questioner to be > > saying that some teacher had told them they weren't > > to bathe at all during rounding? > > > > Is it possible he was furious that (per his > > misunderstanding about the question) a teacher would > > take his instruction about not bathing after program > > *ordinarily*, and extrapolate that to mean they must > > not ever bathe while they were rounding? > > > > If so, it doesn't sound so unreasonable to me that > > he'd be pissed off at such an utter lack of common > > sense. > > I don't think M. misunderstood anything. The questioner was > perplexed about how they could take a bath during rounding -- given > what a teacher had told them -- whatever it was. M. outwardly > displayed great displeasure at, IMO was, a lack of common sense of > the teacher extrapolating an instruction in one context to another.
That was pretty much my second speculation (now snipped). > I think was making a specific point about bathing during rounding, > but more broadly, and IMO, more improtantly, was making a deeply > felt (by him and the audience) broader point: don't extrapolate > what I say on "this" to "that". Yup, that would be my take based on what's been said here. But it seemed to me that the person who originally related the anecdote was presenting it as an example of MMY denying he had given an instruction that he had in fact given, i.e., that he had been denying that he'd ever said not to bathe after program. The other objection was Rick's, where he dismissed it all as MMY getting upset over something "trivial." It would hardly have been trivial if everyone had refrained from bathing while they were rounding for weeks at a time! Plus which, this was a very clear-cut example of foolish extrapolation, hence a good one to use to make the point of using common sense, which is certainly not a trivial issue. The one other objection, I guess, is that based on his own descriptions of enlightenment, we should expect him never to get angry about anything--which is *itself* a foolish extrapolation, it seems to me. <snip> ------------------------ 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/
