Rick Archer wrote: > on 4/6/05 11:23 AM, Don at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Rick Archer wrote: > > > >> on 4/6/05 7:09 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > >>> I've never done TTC, but, as you indicate - I would find it to be in > >>> character with MMY to poke holes in other practices in a factual > >>> manner, i.e. for valid reasons - just as I would expect Him to quailty > >>> ensure the techniques taught by His own movement. > >> > >> Not sure how valid the reasons were in some cases. In the session on the > >> TTC > >> I taught, in Westende, Belgium, March, 1974, the only other spiritual > >> leader > >> he commented on positively was L. Ron Hubbard. He said that if Hubbard had > >> been running the TM movement, it's goals would have been accomplished > >> already. Of course, he wasn't negative toward Yogananda and others. Just > >> said that their techniques didn't measure up to TM. > > > > All the reasons I heard were valid if you believe and experience TM to be a > > simple, natural technique to transcend without effort. What could be better, > > more efficient, than that? Maybe TM is not *the* technique for everyone and > > certainly there are other means to speed up spiritual growth. But, as he > > also > > said, if something else allows you to transcend w/o effort (effort really > > being > > an impediment), it is TM (or tm). > > > The logic appeal to me too. But I've now met and read too many people doing > well on other spiritual paths to believe, as I once did, that TM corners the > spiritual marketplace. Nor do I believe TM corners the marketplace or is the only game in town... different strokes, karmas, times, places and all that. I know people doing well on other paths, too... or no "path" at all. But what they do is not TM... effortless transcending. If transcending effortlessly is best for you (me, whoever), then MMY makes a case for TM and distinguishes it from other techniques. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
