--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When it comes to TM dogma, definitely. When it comes > > to individual stories, many are perfectly true. Some > > are not. Either way, to me, they're just stories, man. > > You seem to be expecting me to react to them as if > > they were something more. > > I wasn't talking about dogma. I was talking about specific stories > that you appeared tob e saying were scripted.
Some of the stories *are* scripted, Lawson. They are told to prospective teachers on TTC and repeated almost verbatim, as if they were catechism, once they become teachers. One rather important example pops to mind -- the story of Trotaka. It's a sweet story and all, but if you analyze its intent, it is to praise the value of always mindlessly doing exactly what the teacher says, and how that's better than other paths. The "individual stories" that other people tell, from their own experience, are just that, individual stories. They "mean" whatever they mean to the storyteller. My point is simply that such stories are often used as thought-stoppers, the way a couple of them have been used here lately. Sorta like, "Well listen to *this* story...are you not convinced that Maharishi is grrrreeeeeaaaat after hearing that one?" :-) Unc 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/
