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Rama question,
Posted by: cat |
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12-May-2004-23:22:18 |
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Re: Rama question |
Many moons ago, an old friend who studied with Rama the same time I did, contacted me through email. We started communicating, and I saved this one email because it had such a huge impact on me. It helped me to process some of the energy and thoughts unleased by the death of Rama's body. I hope that it can help others too. Here is part of the email:
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I wrote: "It [the study] was hard because once I thought I had it down, the rules would change and it would be time to do something different. "
The other student wrote:
"...rama taught by directly telling us things (such as "you are psychic.
not all your thoughts are your own."), but he also taught through
contradiction. he was the fireman who had set down his fire hose and
picked up a flame thrower. he was intent on burning down our houses (our senses of self).
when my parents attempted to have me "deprogrammed" ... one of the big points those people made, that was supposed to be a reason why rama was
wrong/bad/whatever ... was that "rama contradicted himself" ... i tried to explain to them ... but i doubt that they could hear it ... that that was the point ... he didn't contradict himself by accident ...that was (one of the ways of ) how he taught.
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... what rama would do is give us a new false way of thinking/being
... and then, once we were comfortable with that ... replace it with a
totally different (and false) way of being/thinking ... once i became comfortable with the idea that i was to cut ties with everyone who i had know before meeting rama, rama then told us to go and visit our families ... once i became comfortable with the idea that i wasn't supposed to tell my new business associates about me being in the study, rama then told us to go and bring in new recruits ... once i became comfortable with not going to bars and dance clubs because they were just big ego_fest, he had us all show up at studio 54, where we were required to get out on the dance floor and dance ...
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rama was all about burning the house down ... he'd take away one way of
being from us ... let us, then, settle in to our new (false) roles ... and then take that away as well
by the time i left the study, there were only two things things that i can think of that he never contradicted himself about ... and it was a contradiction that caused me to leave ... after going though one change after the other ... after jumping through so many different hoops ... he posed us with a new contradiction ... and i couldn't handle it ... and so i left
everything about rama was a contradiction, and as they got more and more intense, more and more people left. like ... the fact that he was white, wore business suits, and had us meditate to hard core music ...
instead of being asian, instead of having taken a vow of poverty, instead of having us meditate in silence, or some sort of more traditional way. that was the first contradiction. and, while i not only could handle it, i loved it, others could not, and so they left. then, instead of building an ashram and having all live there picking beans and carrying water from the well, ... instead he had us get computer science jobs and go and work in new york city! ... that, now that, was a harder contradiction, but one i could handle, and i did it. but, others couldn't handle it, and so they left.
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a few years after i left the study, while i was in school, i read a newspaper article about rama's death. when i had left they study there were only two things that he had never contradicted himself about ... one was don't take drugs ... and the other was don't commit suicide ... in the article it said that rama had taken a handful of barbiturates and jumped into a lake.
always teaching ... that man ... always teaching to the end."
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