>
> The hidden message here TM zealots are trying to insinuate
The hidden message *where*? Which TM zealots?
Barry has just told us that nobody in the TMO is
talking about Nepal at all.
is that
> when Nepal stopped TM they created a pathway for it's own
> destruction. Of course TM could also have represented the
> destruction of their traditions and what caused the chaos we see
> today, like a festering disease which helped destroy the indigenous
> coherence. In others words TM helped dismantle their own innate
> depth and breadth by replacing it with shallow palliatives.
>
> On Apr 23, 2006, at 7:40 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "George DeForest"
> > <george.deforest@> wrote:
> > >
> > > BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Why the world is watching Nepal
> > >
> > > Why the world is watching Nepal?
> >
> > Why indeed? And why is talk in TMO circles not taking
> > more note of the events there?
> >
> > I mean, it's really a pretty interesting scene, as far
> > as I can tell. A king -- who in my opinion probably had
> > nothing but the highest motives in the world for doing
> > so -- chose to dissolve the democratic political structures
> > in his country and return it to rule by kings who were
> > (theoretically) better able to rule than the democratic
> > rabble.
> >
> > Essentially, he put Maharishi's "ideal government" to
> > the test.
> >
> > AFAIK the king never made any declaration of his own
> > enlightenment, or even any extended dissertation on his
> > divine right to rule. He was very Nike about the whole
> > thing -- he Just Did It. And now, only a few short years
> > later, in the world News we see the results of having
> > taken that stance.
> >
> > People who like Maharishi's theory of "government by
> > the enlightened" can probably look at this situation
> > in Nepal and shrug and say, "Well...it's not as if the
> > king were really enlightened, right?" Well, he might
> > not be. But then, those in the TM movement who think
> > that *they* are enlightened enough to rule the world
> > might not be as well.
> >
> > Me, I think the problem is not with the particular
> > implementation of the "the enlightened should rule"
> > idea, but with the idea itself. I believe the idea
> > is fatally flawed, and would never work even if it
> > *were* implemented by fully enlightened beings. It's
> > just a Bad Idea.
>
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