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Unregistered User
(11/24/01 10:15 am)
Reply 		Friends
What do you all say to SRF friends who have had no exposure to mother center? They are so excited to receive a Christmas letter printed by SRF, or to get a letter from the SRF computers. I have to act excited and fake how wonderful it is.

How do you all handle it?

rayuna
Registered User
(11/24/01 10:39 am)
Reply 		Why?
Enjoy the content. Discriminate the truth in the letters. Why is everything "they" do categorically wrong?

KS
Unregistered User
(11/24/01 4:17 pm)
Reply 		They
I believe the “they” refers back to his SRF friends in the above message. He is wondering what we tell our friends. I don’t think the implication is that “they” are wrong in their thinking. “They” are just still on their honeymoon.

I myself used to enjoy getting the Christmas letter. I looked forward to parts of the SRF Magazine too. That was before I saw behind the curtain. Knowing they don’t practice what they preach ruined it.

The question is what do I tell my friends? I just try to avoid the subject. I don’t feel right discouraging them if they are not in a position to be harmed. If they decide to go to work for SRF, or to become monastics, or even to become center leaders, I will sit and have a long talk with them!

rayuna
Registered User
(11/25/01 5:26 am)
Reply 		"They" defined
It's the criticized element at MC, not his/her friends. Perhaps I didn't answer the question directly, but in general you could tell your firnds the same: Discriminate content, enjoy what feels right, difference between Master & SRF, take the good, ride the bliss that's still there in group meditation, and I think Master asks us to use our awareness to expose blind bees to life in the 21st century.

Crog
Unregistered User
(11/25/01 6:59 am)
Reply 		My Experience
In my experience any suggestion that SRF is not perfect, or that Daya Mata is not perfect, drops a bucket of cold water on the conversation with SRF people I know who have not had close contact. I end up looking pretty bad unless I want to spend days justifiying my position, which I don't do. The SRF propaganda is very successful. They have used Master's reputation to good advantage.

So I avoid the topic. In fact, I usually avoid SRF people these days.

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