--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well fellas and any women, > > No matter what gets posted anywhere, there is going to be a > big range of reactions and responses. When it comes to certain > things like Gurus, there may be a strong reaction. This is > probably why there is a barbed wire fence surrounding Maharishi > house with 24 hour security and a German sheppard.
Bzzzzzt. Thank you for playing, but wrong answer. This is the "Even though *I* know the truth there are people out there not so fortunate, so they are going to react to hearing the truth with skepticism and anger and possibly even violence" answer. In other words, it's the cultist's answer. It's the self importance answer. It's the "I'm just telling them the truth, and if they don't react to that truth the way I want them to, it's because they're not evolved enough to see it" answer. What I've been trying to communicate to you since you started this evangelize-to-the-poor-downtrodden- TMers-what-it's-like-to-study-with-a-*real*-teacher campaign is that there are other ways of seeing the situation than the way you currently see it. One of them is that you spent decades believing what one teacher told you, without ever questioning the validity of anything he said, and now it appears that you're doing exactly the same thing with another teacher. You seem to feel that this is progress on your part. I'm not sure that everyone here agrees with you. > My reason for posting is I am enjoying it. I think some of > the posts I have sent have been really profound and different. > At least this brings a different variety to this forum, one > of a mixture of many other things here. I agree, and you have every right to continue posting these things. Just as I have the right to occasionally point out that you sound a lot like someone who has merely traded one authority figure for another, with no pause in between to practice discrimination. When asked about what *you* believe, you respond with your teacher's words, not your own. When asked specific questions about the practices you perform with Swami G or her credentials or whatever, again you respond *with her words*, as if those words are synonymous with Truth. Not all of us are convinced of the accuracy of the equation: SwamiGsaysIt = Truth What we *are* convinced of by this time is the accuracy of another equation: SwamiGsaysIt = Ron *believes* it is the Truth The two are not the same. I am not for a moment suggesting that you don't firmly believe the things that are being told to you. And I do not for a moment think that you are doing this out of anything other than a sense of inspiration and a desire to share it. I'm merely pointing out something you seem to have missed, that you're acting a lot like a parrot. SwamiG sez this, SwamiG sez that. Who CARES what SwamiG says? What do YOU think about things? That's FAR more interesting to me than anything she has to say. > If by chance, these posts help someone then great, weather > it is voiced or not, doesn't matter. If one voices that > they enjoyed a post and it was helpfull, fine. If one is > very upset with my post, well, could happen- no way I am > going to appeal to everyone. Even if it is zero, whatever > it is, it is ok. Cool, I guess. You're obviously going to continue your evangelistic efforts, no matter what anyone says. Good for you, if it makes you feel like you're doing something valuable. But *as* you continue them, you'll have to forgive me (and others who have spoken up recently) if we point out when you're starting to sound like a fairly naive cultist who is just believing anything that his gooroo tells him to believe. Just as you are providing information on how things are done in your new study, we are occasionally provid- ing *you* with information on how those actions and practices are viewed in other studies and traditions and lineages. Sometimes the things you mention about how Swami G does business just raise big red flags for us, because we've seen those flags raised and dealt with in other traditions. They're "dead end" practices that lead, over time, to confusion in the students and dependence on the teacher. Fine, I guess, if what you really want to become is confused and dependent on your teacher. But if what you're looking for is freedom, that might not be the path you want to take.
