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Every time I think it can't sink any lower, it does. A 'retreat', planned for March, at Amaroo was cancelled due to lack of interest. Maybe they should have offered a special bonus meditation experience only available from AmarooMeds.
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What do they expect? Flying your rear end to australia every year isn't exactly cheap. Most premies that I know still aren't the rich folks.You know what would impress me would be that M foot the bill for EVERYONE to attend....... now THAT would be something worth seeing  Laugh, you say? Well, wait a minute now...... there are only two or three hundred active premies in the US right? he he he.
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What do they expect? Flying your rear end to australia every year isn't exactly cheap. Most premies that I know still aren't the rich folks.Looks like M has succeeded in bleeding his few remaining premies dry. I don't think he has a clue though. Living in his palatial Malibu residence with unpaid servants (i.e. slaves) attending to his every need and whim, he is probably out of touch with the REAL WORLD. Earning money, getting by day to day, paying the bills etc. But seriously, M foot the bill? yeah right.....>..! NAR, it's not the good ol' days any more you know! - when programmes were free, and anyone could go, whatever their financial circumstances. The premies today have to pay a lot of money to listen to M speak at a prog. Crikey, I couldn't afford to become a premie these days even if I wanted to! A post of Jean Michel's below shows the Houston Astrodome programme poster, which proclaimed that: Love is Free
Truth is Free
and ADMISSION IS FREE!!!! Free admission???? That really is the distant past now. I think that when M rejected the ethos of free admission, and started charging A LOT of money, that was a BIG DRIP for me. Knowledge at that point became the exclusivity of the rich : M&K were all about money. Yes, poor, deluded premies. They need to take a mortgage out just to eat at Daya's - let alone pay registration and air fare.
What a sorry state of affairs.
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Is it a restaurant in Malibu or what? I'm not being silly, I really don't know
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Daya's Place is the exclusive restaurant at Amaroo where premies go to meet and greet and smoke and drink with Daya Rawat, her siblings and sometimes, even the lardass himself. Reservations only. I'm not kidding. Sorry, as a former ashram girl, I can't get my head around going to darshan, after the Lord's satsang, to have drinks, eat steaks, and have cognac!!!
Modified by Cynthia at Thu, Apr 06, 2006, 18:14:35
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I'll take that under advisement. One thing is for sure, whether anyone likes my meat eating or not...... at least I fully acknowledge that what I eat was, in fact, alive. It didn't come from a grocery store (as if that were the origin of food). This applies to vege's too
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Didn't the Buddha once replicate himself all over one side of an adjacent hill
loo P
Modified by LP at Sun, Apr 09, 2006, 04:00:10
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If you thisnk the premies are bled dry you're expectations are as unrealistic as they were when your received Knowledge. The org, while hardly growing in leaps and bounds, seems to be surviving quite well but then that's what people thought of the USSR in 1984.
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I'm used to having my hopes raised... any references?
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Between the ex's that I know of (a fair number of folks) and all of the misinformation concerning program attendance by EV, I figure that the numbers are pretty low for U.S. premies, but I haven't got any real knowledge of the actual numbers.I know there haven't been any of the HUGE programs that there used to be, with the possible exception of India, so I can guess...... but that is all I am really doing. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up...... it was just supposed to be funny.
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It's cool.. I'm given to bouts of insane optimism .. That taste, for a moment, was something to strive for though, there were visions of relief.. that now... having hovered there, even for a moment, will not go away. I am surprised how fervently I want him to give it up.... I have a cause.. it is, I believe, a noble cause. I long for this tyrrany to end.
sadderman
Modified by LP at Thu, Apr 06, 2006, 20:19:39
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Don't jump the gun. Reports of the death of the students of Prem Rawat are prem-ature though there was a slight dearth in March. Mind you there must be at least 2 or 3 hundred premies within short driving distance of Amaroo but maybe that was a bad choice of date. The rest of the retreats are planned for holiday long weekends and maybe they'll be blissfully packed out.
I always enjoyed meditation retreats enormously. Didn't everybody?
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Cuz I was absorbing more energy than you and it made me soooo, sooo, sooo humble, too
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see,. watched kettles do boil!.. they just take longer...
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