--- In [email protected], "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since "purity of the teaching" is and always has been > > MMY's most important focus, he's been willing to tolerate > > less-than-creative individuals because they're the ones most > > likely to follow the "purity of the teaching" requirement, > > regardless. > > **** > The fundamentalists usually give `the purity of the teaching' as an > excuse, when they give reasons for there course of action. That > pattern is so typical to fundies, that I already for a long time > have immediately labelled anyone who appeals to that phrase as a > fundamentalist. So far nothing has emerged that would hint those > persons having got to a wrong category.
Bingo. That phrase is the ultimate thought-stopper, as wielded by the TM fundamentalist. It is *supposed* to stop the discussion. *Nothing* trumps "purity of the teaching." *Anything* is permissible to "defend* it, including acts that are illegal (such as dismissing a student from a university for "wrong thought" or sending some- one home from a course with no refund for violating a simple (and simple-minded) rule like, "Thou shalt go straight to the kitchen after evening lecture and have thy warm milk with cardamon and then go straight to bed and thou shalt do all of this in silence." I had a good friend who has a hilarious way of describ- ing the epiphany of figuring all of this stuff out. He was on an ATR course in Switzerland, and was told in no uncertain terms to follow the above "rule." The trouble was, he *hated* warm milk and cardamon. So his routine was to walk across the street to the next hotel and buy an ice-cream cone, and take it back to his room, all in silence. He was called on the carpet for this by the course leaders several times. He ignored them. Finally, he was told in no uncertain terms to show up at a certain time for a "tribunal" (yes, they really called it that), in which he was to be interrogated, and at the end of which he was either going to be sent home in disgrace, never to be allowed to return to another TM course again, or repent of his evil ways, change his behavior, and be allowed to stay. So he's sitting in this waiting room, waiting, and he's scared. Really scared. His entire life is on the line. He *knows*, from experience, what happens to TM teachers who have been declared "off the program." He *knows* that his entire access to advanced techniques or any future teachings from Maharishi is on the line. So he's *justifiably* scared. And then it hits him, in a blinding flash of realization, that he's sitting there quivering in his seat, about to be judged by his betters for the dastardly crime of Eating Ice Cream. He starts to laugh. They call him into the room. He can't stop laughing. He answers none of their questions, because he just can't stop laughing. He finally gets up and leaves the room, and the Inquisitors are so dumbfounded by some- one not being afraid of them that they don't do *anything* about it. He hears not another word about it. He goes back home at the end of his ATR course, and naturally the next time he applies for another course he is barred from attending it. But by this time he really doesn't care, because he's still laughing. Obviously, this is not a "purity of the teaching" issue per se, but it IS an example of the fascist mindset that can develop in those who espouse it as an excuse for just being fascists. 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/
