THIS is the time of year when garden pundits tell their disciples to bring in branches of forsythia, pussy willow or flowering quince for indoor bloom.
For fans of Django Reinhardt (1910-1953), the virtuosic Belgian-born French jazz guitarist, all roads lead to Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday at 7 p.m. That's when the annual "Spirit of Django Reinhardt" concert will bring together masterly European disciples like Dorado Schmitt and his son Samson, Stocholo Rosenberg of the Netherlands and Roby Lakatos of Hungary.
In 1971, he opened the Maharishi International University in Los Angeles; it moved to Fairfield, Iowa, in 1974, where there are now some 300 businesses owned by his disciples, bringing new activity to an economically depressed region.
Maronite Christianity, an ancient sect, emerged in the fifth century when the early Christians of Syria pledged their allegiance to a hermit, Marun, whose gifts and virtues brought him many disciples.
Their goal is the total destruction of American institutions and the setting up of conditions such as Lenin and Trotsky and their disciples brought about in Russia.
I take this opportunity to invite you to experience the fullness and the pinnacle that this relationship of Guru-Disciple brings.
Those who hold the opposite view argue that exemplary worthies, like Confucius' disciple Yan Hui, could also bring about the ideal political community, provided that their policies were continued for several generations (Sanguo zhi 15).
Here we are, Socrates, true to our agreement of yesterday; and we bring with us a stranger from Elea, who is a disciple of Parmenides and Zeno, and a true philosopher.
In the Great Commission, he called for the making of disciples -- people who followed a teacher in order to bring about his or her vision of the world.
Jesus frowned, wishing he had brought along the other disciples.
