--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > Post of the month, maybe of the year. Comment below. >
Thanks. You are probably the only one arising from the rabble of FFLife who thinks so. But I'll take the compliment. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: > > > > TM cannot exist without the TMO. Warts and all, it > > is the only organization capable of teaching TM so > > that it remains TM, a simple mental technique, > > rather than some watered down version that loses its > > effectiveness. Maharishi's great gift to the world > > was a systematic way to allow the mind to transcend. > > > > IMO the foundation of Maharishi's worldwide TMO is > > secure enough to endure leadership foibles and > > growing pains just as it always has. It will always > > have detractors, saints, dummies and TM teachers off > > the reservation who will teach, who knows what. > > Regardless, the TMO is the only reliable glue that > > can hold the teaching of TM together in perpetuity > > or at least for a very long time. > <snip> > > The argument can certainly be made that the TMO > shouldn't be a crusading, messianic organization, > but that's how its founder saw it from the very > beginning, and there isn't really anything that > can be done about it now; it isn't going to change > in that regard. I don't believe Maharishi thought of the TMO as a crusading, messianic organization. Certainly, these are loaded words meant to malign. But, no. In the early days, it was more like, he had a bunch of unkempt hippies on TTC who needed direction, structure, discipline and routine, if he hoped to hone their ability to teach with any requisite precision. Undoubtedly, discipline and routine will evoke rigidity and extremism in extremist personalities, (usually Fascists or Communists) but so what. Organizations must remain organized or disband. > You're always going to have blindly devoted people > running a messianic organization, and there will > always be some who commit excesses of one sort or > another. The TMO is what it is. As MMY used to say, > "The movement has its own karma." Righto. > It's one thing to criticize the movement; goodness > knows it deserves criticism. But it seems absurd > to me to attack it so ferociously. It seems > *especially* weird to ferociously attack those who > decline to attack it ferociously, as if such > attacks on the movement were the only acceptable > way to respond to it, as if the attitude generating > the attacks were the only RIGHT one to have and any > other was despicably WRONG. Yes. Sometimes I feel like I'm the cartoon character who gets slammed over the head with a frying pan for no apparent reason. Overkill. > It really is the mirror image of the TB stance that > is so often the target of scorn here. That irony > seems to be lost on many of the TM critics. > I've noticed that as well. Zealotry resides on either side of the fence. It just makes FFLife that much more interesting in the battle of wits. "It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them." J.R.R. Tolkien
