--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > > I have been out traveling from FF to spiritual places out > > > West and recently out East, and it is informative to hear > > > people in reaction to Maharishi when you go other places. > > > > This strikes me as an excellent exercise in the > > "healthy mind challenging its own assumptions" > > credo that distinguishes FFL from other TM-related > > sites and most of its participants from TBs. One > > of the things I think we all agree on is that if > > one bases one's opinion of Maharishi and TM *solely* > > on what one hears from *within* the TM movement, > > one gets a rather different picture than one would > > get if one examined feedback from a broader sampling > > within the larger spiritual community. > > > > One Web resource that is fun, although rather > > subjective, is "Sarlo's Guru Rating Service" at: > > http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/Ratings.htm > > Very interesting site. Do read the About page > and the Disclaimer page, and the links thereon, > including one to a longish excerpt from Osho > (Sarlo's guru) titled "Why Gurus Criticize Each > Other," a fascinating theory, in which Osho tells > a story about Rumi: > > > One day Jalaluddin Rumi took all his students, disciples and devotees > to a field. That was his way to teach them things of the beyond, > through the examples of the world. He was not a theoretician, he was > a very practical man. The disciples were thinking, "What could be the > message, going to that faraway field... and why can't he say it here?" > > But when they reached the field, they understood that they were wrong > and he was right. The farmer seemed to be almost an insane man. He > was digging a well in the field and he had already dug eight > incomplete wells. He would go a few feet and then he would find that > there was no water. Then he would start digging another well... and > the same story was continued. He had destroyed the whole field and he > had not yet found water. > > The master, Jalaluddin Rumi, told his disciples, "Can you understand > something? If this man had been total and had put his whole energy > into only one well, he would have reached to the deepest sources of > water long ago. But the way he is going he will destroy the whole > field and he will never be able to make a single well. With so much > effort he is simply destroying his own land, and getting more and > more frustrated, disappointed: what kind of a desert has he > purchased? It is not a desert, but one has to go deep to find the > sources of water." > > He turned to his disciples and asked them, "Are you going to follow > this insane farmer? Sometimes on one path, sometimes on another path, > sometimes listening to one, sometimes listening to another... you > will collect much knowledge, but all that knowledge is simply junk, > because it is not going to give you the enlightenment you were > looking for. It is not going to lead you to the waters of eternal > life." > > http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/Ycrit.htm > > <snip> > > Just for fun, here's his entry on Maharishi (rating = *): > > > > "Founder of Maharishi Thousand-Headed Purusha... > > Transcendental Meditation®... discovered the Constitution > > of the Universe... Yogic Flying to create supreme mind-body > > coordination in the individual and coherence in world > > consciousness... Absolute Theories of Government, Education, > > Health, and Defense to raise every area of life to perfection." > > Guru was Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math. Anti link is an > > ex-TM-teacher, talk of hypnosis, adverse reactions. > > Tripletalk, enormous money, but benefit of doubt. 2nd > > anti site into exposing "myths." > > FWIW, the anti link from the ex-TM teacher is Joe > Kellett's site; the other one is called "Behind the > TM Facade" and has no clue as to who is responsible > for it. >
Think that the second one is supported by a rival "former TM teacher" group in the UK.
