Maharishi s retreat center in Switzerland will become a hotel for tourists:
But Maharishi and his followers have built new Luxury Apartments apartments in Holland:
And Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org does not attach to the Meditation Research Institute Switzerland either which will be demolished, soon:
He will find a new place as well. And if it is only a place like Milarepa’s Cave somewhere in Switzerland:
Milarepa in his cave:
“The stunning lesson in impermanence gave Milarepa the final push he needed to follow Marpa’s command to meditate in mountain retreat. He stayed there for many years, until his clothes turned to rags, his bones protruded, and the nettles he ate turned his skin green. Hunters and thieves who came upon him thought he was a ghost. When he went begging for food, his uncle, aunt, and neighbors attacked him, and he barely escaped. His sister, who had also become a beggar, wept in misery at his apparently even sorrier state.”
Milarepa (1052 – 1138) was the founder of the Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He is considered one of the greatest yogis and ascetics in Tibet. He is also considered Tibet’s greatest poet.
Nettles can be used medicinally, ceremonially and as a highly nutritious food source. Roots, seeds, stems and young, tender leaves are all edible. Native Indigenous people use stinging nettle for medicine, ceremony and as a food source.
Milarepa seemed to have no fund as a meditator in solitary retreat. And the Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) has no fund for research either. The only Meditation Research Institute we know who had a fund is the one at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in India. But hey had obiously only a research grant temporarily either.
This rises the question: Are Indian Gurus and Indian Meditation Research Institutes badly co-originated? The Indian Guru Mahareshi Yogi let’s luxury hotels in Switzerland for 20 years empty without guests. How much money could have been made of this building in 20 years? We suppose enough to fund a Meditation Research Institute such as the one at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama for a long period of time.