Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Honest answers (was comments on Gable's editorial)

[Llundrub]

They have their logic. I think you need to answer the question I asked several posts back about keeping the purity of the teachiing. I have to ask myself this question: If there was little attempt to keep the purity of the teaching by being careful what gets interjected and absorbed in to it, what would happen over time to the teaching of the knowledge. I think everyone here should try an honest open minded objective attempt to answer this PARTICULAR question precisely (and concisely) OffWorld -----I think that attempting to answer you on point is an exercise in fallacy (because you're obviously a fucking lunatic), but here goes.   A person cannot control anything. Just when you get your meditation center set up an earthquake knocks it down.  Just when you request the amount of money needed to cover the mere costs of the teachings someone objects and you take a loss. Just when you learn one set of mantras the guru creates a new set and forbids the old ones. Just when you initiated ten thousand meditators your priviliges for performing the ceremony are revoked. There is no purity of the teachings. Because that implies the ability to control them, which implies that all the chaotic and mind staggering possibilities for change can be limited to a set of rules or standards.  This is maya.  This questing to control. One who demands control against all odds is a Mara.   The only thing that can preserve a tradition is love, not rules, not institutions, not an army of soldiers with shoulder nukes. Love.  If people love TM and the TMO then it will remain. If they don't it will corrupt. Fini.  Has little to do with any specific element of the teaching exactly.   Same with America. Same with the Catholic Church. Same with relationships. Same with everything. Only love for it can preserve it. All other means to preserve it will fail.    And then there's the opposite which is that what one once loved through too much control loses the freedom of the more spacious elements and becomes dense and heavy and so loses its original base and premise.  This happens all the time.   What I wish for you Off, is that you recognize the glass bars of the TMO cage and learn someday that though they lured you into a spacious cage with transparent bars, that you're still in a cage. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.