--Thanks, Jim, brilliant and inspirational!!! I'm impressed.
- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "qntmpkt" <qntmpkt@> wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> On other topics, I (as opposed to Vaj); will come right out with
my
> > game plan for a Jihad against ignorance. First on the agenda:
> make
> > TM available to everybody on the planet. This project alone
could
> > take us about 500 years.
> >
> > If, after giving TM a try, (that is AS TAUGHT BY MMY!); and they
> > prefer not to practice this wonderful technique; they should then
> > give statistically inferior methods a chance, such as various
> > mindfulness techniques one might find in Buddhism.
> >
> > Vaj, I urge you to join with us in spreading TM throughout the
> world,
> > declaring a Jihad against Ignorance. Should such TM
practitioners
> > also be inclined to being devoted to various Buddhist teachers
> like
> > the Dalai Lama, or Norbu (i.e. Gurus fitting their mold in the
> > centuries to come); fine. I practice TM but am devoted to 3
> > excellent Buddhist teachers, including Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche.
But
> > I'm the true Buddhist. You're the errant and misguided Buddhist.
> >
>
> Maharishi's World Plan revisited
>
> Remember the old analogy about pulling the arrow on the bowstring
> back all the way into silence? And then letting it go in activity?
> This is Maharishi's core message and teaching. Sure there is the
> benefit of deep rest during meditation and all that, coming out
into
> activity, inward stroke/outward stroke...blah, blah, blah. But
> beyond that, seeing the big picture, is the macro action of pulling
> the bowstring back All The Way, and then...just holding it there.
>
> Holding the arrow between the fingers, arms flexed, legs stout,
> straight back, pulling all the way back, creating that silence and
> that tension, together. Self-discipline.
>
> Maharishi has been teaching us to not only pull back the bow each
> time we meditate, but also the macro action of pulling back on the
> bow and just holding it there. Each of us holding the bow back in
> Silence. No release.
>
> This then is how our beautiful planet is slowly and steadily being
> rehabilitated, this is the way the troops are assembled, each to
our
> Dharma, marshaled for the final campaign, inside and out, earth as
> the target. It takes everything we have in order to save our planet
> (or our planet-body, as you wish). So the bow is pulled back, and
> held there. Some will take stock of all that has come out from
> Maharishi so far, and conclude sooner or later, "There, that's it-
> we're done, didn't work, Maharishi is a fake and worse, in it for
> the money, sex, power, and fame..."
>
> And yet, he doesn't let us off the hook so easily, the arrow is not
> yet released, the deed is not yet done. With the string held all
the
> way back, it is held in silence, hidden from view, hidden from
> activity. Just silence, and tension, existing together. The tension
> acting like a white hot star, steadily burning through subtle
> thoughts, enlarging the universal silence within us. The string is
> held taught in silence.
>
> Imagine a thousand people, a million, ten millionÂ…then six billion
> people on our planet (or within us, if you prefer), all desiring
> Light, expansion, enlightenment, a better life. Each of us
> meditators doing our practice twice a day tactically, and at the
> same time over the years, holding back the bow strategically in
> silence, holding back the arrow in the tension of waiting -Self
> discipline- years of holding the bow back and creating a powerful
> Absolute component to the daily life on earth. Silence supporting
> activity. All of us joined together, creating a hidden blanket of
> silence on which the earth rests, more and more comfortably.
>
> By sacrificing himself to Guru Dev, to Shiva, and to all of us who
> are easy to criticize him, Maharishi, as the greatest Kshatriya,
has
> created an army of archers, ready to loose the arrows on his
> command. We are holding back the bows, each of us ten thousand
times
> a year. Year after year, after year. Pulling back the bowstring,
> each of us. Until we begin to hold back the bow continuously,
> beginning to identify now with the absolute nature of Maharishi.
> Identifying with the holding back of the bow, and just waiting to
> act. Life goes on, and still we hold back the bow, waiting to act.
>
> We measure ourselves by the symptoms he has given us, to show us
how
> successful we are at holding back the bow continuously. Silence and
> tension growing into and supporting CC, then GC, then UC. This is
> the only value to the higher states of consciousness for us to
> Maharishi; how well it indicates our perfection as archers, ready
to
> loose that volley of light, unleashed steadily upon the earth,
> changing the age, silence supporting activity, transforming life
for
> all of us here on earth.
>
