Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Peter


--- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

snip

 
 I think this is a Big Spiritual Mistake. I think
 that
 anyone's life is really about the raw footage of
 that life -- the clean parts *and* the messy parts.
 And I think that this is even more true when dealing
 with enlightenment. The enlightened *aren't* all
 squeaky clean. They fart and shit like other people,
 and as far as I can tell they make messy mistakes
 like other people. I believe that editing their
 lives to make it appear as they don't is a
 disservice
 to the enlightened themselves, and to people who
 seek
 enlightenment and hope to find it in their example.
 
 I don't know whether the press conferences in ques-
 tion are being edited to remove the messy parts,
 but it is *completely* consistent with TM movement
 history that they are. I have certainly seen the
 edits
 done on other tapes and books over the years.  And
 I'm
 just rappin' about this because I think it's a
 mistake,
 a disservice to the person being edited, and to the 
 seekers who are forced to view an edited version
 of life. IMO, real life is always better.
 
 Just my opinion,
 
 Unc

Excellent post. When I did video production in Ffld I
used to interact on a regular basis with MIU's video
production department. On a near regular basis I would
see raw MMY footage being edited to remove sections
that did not adhere to top administrators' ideal of
what MMY should say. Usually international did this
but every once in a while MIU video would edit some of
these tapes. I also saw them do this on a Triguna tape
where the edit completely reversed his intended
meaning. The person editing the tape showed me the raw
footage and the finished product. He told me that he
was directly told by someone in the MIU administration
to edit particular parts of the tape.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/14/05 7:36 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Snip
 
 I think this is a Big Spiritual Mistake. I think that
 anyone's life is really about the raw footage of
 that life -- the clean parts *and* the messy parts.
 And I think that this is even more true when dealing
 with enlightenment. The enlightened *aren't* all
 squeaky clean. They fart and shit like other people,
 and as far as I can tell they make messy mistakes
 like other people. I believe that editing their
 lives to make it appear as they don't is a disservice
 to the enlightened themselves, and to people who seek
 enlightenment and hope to find it in their example.

Your post reminds me of why Oprah Winfrey is such a spiritual person. My
wife has been watching her 6-DVD 20th Anniversary special - highlights of
her past 20 years. Oprah's heart is wide open. She feels others' pain as her
own. And she is brutally honest with herself in front of 20 million people,
sometimes appearing without makeup, talking about her weight problems, etc.
Very inspiring lady.




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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Vaj


On Dec 14, 2005, at 10:59 AM, authfriend wrote:as well  as the teaching'sextraordinary explanatory value. There's a Freudian slip if ever I saw one!





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Peter


--- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
  MMY's personality is very much a product of his
 time
  and culture. It has nothing to do with anything
  cosmic. Blazing Brahman expresses itself through
 an
  aging, slightly senile, lower-caste, 89 year old
 Hindu
  man who has run a spiritual movement with an iron
 fist
  for the past 50 years.
 
 Boy, I think this is an important point.
 
 Peter, would it also be correct to phrase it
 slightly differently and say, This is *how*
 Blazing Brahman is expressing itself through
 this particular aging, slightly senile,
 lower-caste, 89-year-old Hindu man who has
 run a spiritual movement with an iron fist
 for the past 50 years?

Yes, better stated your way.


 
 I mean, obviously one has to think MMY has
 *realized* Blazing Brahman in order to make
 either of these two statements.
 
 But people tend to look at the *expression*,
 find it to be much less than what they think
 of as perfection in a relative sense, and
 on that basis assume MMY has *not* realized
 Brahman.

Agreed. If you're looking for relative perfection in a
realized master, good luck! For example in a
residential Art of Living course I took about a year
ago with SSRS in residence, I was bothered by his
casual manner in talking about funny stories from his
ashram and people throwing themselves at his feet. He
wasn't making fun of them or anything but was talking
about the difficulty in walking around and how much
time it took to go from one end of his ashram to
another. Very funny, very cute story. But I was amazed
at part of my own reaction. I wanted him to be more
serious and aloof and not have the reaction he did.
Just some silly relative ideal of what a guru should
be. My attachment, my problem, not his.

 
 Of course whether he has or hasn't is still
 one's individual take; it's just that the take
 shouldn't be based, it seems to me, on the
 perceived distance of the expression from what
 they would consider relative perfection.

The first time I saw MMY in 1972 my mind blew wide
open and left absolutely no doubts about his Realized
status. And in every ensuing contact with him over the
years this has happened over and over again with the
experience getting deeper and deeper everytime.

 
 So what should it be based on??  I assume
 realized people and nonrealized people have
 different ways of evaluating MMY's state of
 consciousness.

Your own direct experience...only!

 
 From my unrealized perspective, it's a
 combination of a gut hunch, and my awe at the
 depth, comprehensiveness, and internal
 consistency of his teaching on the nature and
 mechanics of consciousness (including its
 implementation in the TM technique), as well 
 as the teaching'sextraordinary explanatory value.

Right, you find great value in his teachings.
 
 It just doesn't seem possible to me that a person,
 no matter how brilliant their mind, could come up
 with such a teaching purely on an intellectual
 basis.  It has to be coming from some basis in
 higher intuitive knowledge (or Knowledge, to
 distinguish it from intellectual knowledge).

Ageed!
 
 Of course, that's still based on a sense of how
 close MMY's expression comes to my idea of 
 relative perfection, which is what I just said
 you shouldn't do.

I don't think we can ever, to a complete degree, get
away from this. In fact, it perhaps is a foolish
spiritual ideal.
 
 Now I'm trying to figure out on what basis I think
 evaluating his teaching on the nature and mechanics
 of consciousness is a more appropriate criterion on
 which to have an opinion of his realization, versus
 evaluating the sensibleness of his political and
 social pronouncements and what he's been doing with
 the TMO.
 
 Help me out here.  They're both measuring what MMY
 expresses against a personal idea of relative 
 perfection.  Why should choosing one *type* of
 expression over another make a difference?  Or
 are both approaches essentially absurd?
 
 Obviously I've gone off on something of a tangent
 here...

Yeah, but a good tangent  I think, ultimately, the
value of a guru/master is in him/her functioning as a
catalyst for one's own realization. This is
appreciated by people as their experiences with the
body of techniques offered, the intellectual
knowledge, and the transcendent darshan experiences
with the master.


 
 
 
 
 
 
  The value of our interaction
  with him has nothing to do with the surface of
 this
  relationship. This surface always varies from
 guru
  to guru and is quite irrelevent to the
 transcendent
  value of the relationship. MMY doesn't give a damn
  about your personality. It is utterly irrelevent
 to
  your Realization.
  
  --- Premanand Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  wrote:
  
   I have received an email relating to a press
   conference in which MMY 
   allegedly made himself look and sound like an
 Ill
   tempered raving 
   lunatic.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Peter


--- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

snip
 
 Maharishi has evolved into pure paradox,
 transcending my intellect,  
 and leaving me as the innocent witness to his
 actions. Like a master-
  disciple relationship only in the transcendent;
 ONLY in the 
 transcendent. Pure Paradox.

Absolutely. You got it! Nothing of value on the
surface at all. It's all sentimentality and ego up
there, but deep in the heart is that pulse of Brahman
that just PULLS you into it and flattens all the
bullshit of the personality. Pure Shiva whirling in
absolute stillness destroying all boundaries. Ha
Tomorrow night meditate under the full moon for a few
hours and watch that cosmic dance unfold in your
awareness.


 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Vaj


On Dec 14, 2005, at 1:01 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:And yet I suspect you'd have to admit that this is a subjective feeling. I spent a lot of time around Maharishi as well, and never felt anything from him that I would attribute to enlightenment, whereas I have with other people. Go figure.  I think the bottom line may be that if we could react to everyone we meet (including ourselves) by  cutting them the same slack we give to those we  consider enlightened, the world might be a better  place.  :-) In the tradition I practice in, it is considered one of the aspects of the manifestations of staying in the state of unity to be able to see others in their enlightened forms. 





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Peter


--- tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 jim_flanegin writes; snipped
 Maharishi has evolved into pure paradox,
 transcending my intellect,  
 and leaving me as the innocent witness to his
 actions. Like a master-
  disciple relationship only in the transcendent;
 ONLY in the 
 transcendent. Pure Paradox.  
 
 Tom T responds:
 This is the value of Brahman. Only Brahman can hold
 those extreme
 values inside one human mind and live with that
 paradox. If you have
 any doubt left about the nature of Brahman see above
 and ponder on
 that for a while. This is the exposition and playing
 out of the
 Jaimini sutras. On the hand is the realtive loony
 toon character and
 on the other hand is the blazing brillance of pure
 Shiva, go try and
 figure it out and you can't. That is the definition
 of Brahman. 
 I once heard a 23 year old, FF born and raised,
 describe her
 enlightenment as delightful confusion. Delightful
 because it was and
 confusion because the mind was never going to figure
 it out. Not now
 Not ever. Tom T

That's what you don't think!




 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Sal Sunshine
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 >
 > 
 > On Dec 14, 2005, at 10:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 > 
 > > I said Ayatolla Maharishi , not Ghengis Maharishi! LOL! my point  
 > > being that he sounds more like any other fundamentalist from any  
 > > other religion. Maybe a little more Islamic like with his throw out  
 > > the Christians by force sentiment. But you are right , it's like he  
 > > is calling in air strikes on his own position. Only thing is with  
 > > such speak he only damages his own image, which I suppose could be  
 > > a false image in some peoples eyes.
 > 
 > The parallels are striking. What is Maharishi Vedic Science but  
 > Maharishi Creation Science--Creation Science with a different mask. 

But the big question is...do they have Think  Draw? :)

Sal


Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Vaj


On Dec 14, 2005, at 2:08 PM, jyouells2000 wrote:It's odd. If Maharishi's so right-wing how come almost everyone connected with him in the West leans so far left? It's a strange thing. It is. It's just the paradox of Brahman, so stop worrying. And he just has a funny way of showing his compassion. All is well.Is there great difference between a Christian fundie school kid who quotes the bible, talks of the Big Bang and tells about Jesus and a MSAE kid who quotes scientific literature, talks about AGNI and unified field theory to sell you his idea from M.? Both are conditioned dogmas. Call it Pavlov's meditator.





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread MDixon6569






In a message dated 12/14/05 11:00:19 A.M. Central Standard Time, 
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teaching'sextraordinary explanatory 
  value.
  There's a Freudian slip if ever I saw one!

O caught that one also LOL!





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Vaj


On Dec 14, 2005, at 3:46 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand Paul Mason"  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Please, when and where did you meet Brahmananda Saraswati face-to- face?  It was when I lived near Washington DC, around March or April 1993.  The experience lasted for about three days. Also had other contact  with him, but this one lasted the longest. Were you the person who saw him at the rock concert and everyone was hurling? (seriously-- that was reported here once).





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Vaj


On Dec 14, 2005, at 3:55 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:Believe what you want. I have not stated such a thing to convince  anybody. On the other hand, I am not going to pretend it was some  fantasy, or that I mention this for ego aggrandizement as many would  understand it, or keep quiet about it because there are folks out  there that desperately need a rational explanation. You've been  meditating long enough, deal with it, however you like.  Were you able to touch him?





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Peter
All valid observations and insights that you need to
temper your own experience with, not deconstruct the
validity of another's experience. You can only talk
about what you experience, not another. And certainly
don't expect social consensus with someone like MMY.
Your mind is never going to get him. Never, ever.
Amen. 

--- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
   wrote:
--- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

snip
 
 Maharishi has evolved into pure paradox,
 transcending my intellect,  
 and leaving me as the innocent witness to
 his
 actions. Like a master-
  disciple relationship only in the
 transcendent;
 ONLY in the 
 transcendent. Pure Paradox.

Absolutely. You got it! Nothing of value on
 the
surface at all. It's all sentimentality and
 ego up
there, but deep in the heart is that pulse of
 Brahman
that just PULLS you into it and flattens all
 the
bullshit of the personality. Pure Shiva
 whirling in
absolute stillness destroying all boundaries. 
   
   And yet I suspect you'd have to admit that this
   is a subjective feeling. 
  
  A polite way of saying mood making, perhaps? 
  
  And/ or the inner consolidation/condensation of
 ones own 
  projections of how the world (and gurus) should
 be? I mean 
  if one thinks MMY or whoever is IT, THE ONE,
 won't the 
  mind almost automatically create a sense of that
 experience 
  when one sees them? Particularly if it is a
  rare event / (always a) special occasion?
 
 Absolutely. The rarer the event is, the more likely
 it is that the expected experience will occur.
  
  Did the skinboys and inner circle types who were
 around MMY 
  constantly experience him as blazing brahman.
 
 Absolutely not. That's why most of them left. Each
 of us is free to decide whether they were right in 
 their decision to leave or not.
 
  Could the need to experience a teacher as blazing
 brahman justify
  the umpteen years poured into what now apear, at
 least in part as
  trivial and silly projects of his?
 
 I think so. There is a strong tendency in all humans
 to justify what one has dedicated years to. This
 tendency
 often keeps people paying lip service to what they
 have
 dedicated years to *years* past the time when they
 no
 longer feel it deserves their dedication. Most of
 the
 people I've ever met who have walked away from a
 strong
 involvement with a spiritual tradition have said
 that
 they did so several years later than they should
 have.
 The realization that they no longer fit predated 
 their ability to accept or act on that realization.
 
  Someone once said that the grandeur of the
 described experience
  around the teacher is inversely proportional to
 ones proximity.
 
 There *is* a proximity factor at work here. The aura
 
 of a teacher is usually stronger in his/her close
 proximity than it is far away. That is, until and
 unless one develops an inner connection with the 
 teacher that transcends time and space. At that
 point, distance no longer matters.
 
 But there are a myriad of energies that swirl around
 a strong spiritual teacher. In my opinion, some of
 these energies have to do with enlightenment, with
 eternity itself. Other of the energies have to do 
 with the finite teacher and his or her good points,
 and his or her lingering samskaras. One of the
 things
 that tends to happen when one is in close proximity
 to a strong teacher is that one is bombarded by both
 types of energies, and can have a hard time figuring
 out which is which. Thus people sometimes begin to 
 mistake the strong energy of the lingering samskaras
 
 for the strong energy of enlightenment.
 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Peter


--- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Comment/Question below:
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 jim_flanegin 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  wrote:
  
  **SNIP**
   Besides the next time I see Guru Dev, I'm
 tattling on 
   youHa Ha
  
  **SNIP TO END**
  
  Jim, if you don't mind sharing, is there any
 details regarding your
  interaction(s) with Guru Dev that you can relate?
  
  Thanks,
  Marek
 
 Hi, yes- please see my answer to Vaj's question. 
 
 Other than that, I've always detested mood making,
 and just followed 
 the genuine desires of my heart. As I recall my
 desire began to form 
 when I read in the Gita about God having a personal
 form, in order 
 for us to be able to focus our devotion more easily
 on Him.
 
 At the time, I really wanted to be devoted to
 Maharishi, but just 
 couldn't ever get personally jazzed about it. It
 always felt dry, 
 like trying to fall in love with someone and you
 just can't. 
 
 But I sure was attracted to that picture of
 Brahmananda Saraswati- 
 his facial expression and the look in his eyes. I
 just really 
 admired that- I thought, yeah, there is a true
 saint, who can live 
 in the jungle, etc. That is a resolute Being!
 
 And it just went from there. Probably driven more
 from a sense of 
 humility and desperation and surrender, than piety.
 
 I wrote a very few notes during that time:
 
 January 22, 1993
 from communion
 
 Guru dev, His Divinity Swami Brahmananda Saraswati,
 
 perfect body; to look upon any part of His form
 instantly leads the 
 mind on an inward march toward the Absolute, using
 the sense of 
 sight.
 
 perfect heart; to be near Him feels like your
 perfect dad and best 
 friend.
 
 perfect mind; to gaze into his eyes is to sit in the
 lotus, looking 
 out over vast galaxies of stars; a throne upon the
 universe.
 
 PS I got the date wrong earlier, when replying from
 memory.

Very nice experience. I've never felt a strong
connection to him. Different dharmas for different
karmas. 


 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The British in India

2005-12-14 Thread Vaj


On Dec 14, 2005, at 6:07 PM, authfriend wrote: Both are conditioned dogmas. Call it Pavlov's meditator.  Fundies meditate? They pray (presumably).





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