--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > off_world_beings wrote: > > > > I think you need to answer the question > > I asked several posts back about keeping > > the purity of the teaching. > > Yes, this is the Big Question. Around here, people > seem to have answered it in a number of ways: > > 1. No one I know wants to fiddle with the basic > instructions for TM or the TM-Sidhis, so the whole > "preservation of knowledge" emphasis is irrelevant. > > 2. The knowledge of TM is not so special as to > deserve special treatment. Making it out to be > special has more to do with cult indoctrination > than with keeping the barbarians from the gate. > > 3. The purity will inevitably be lost; creating an > orthodoxy to preserve it fails in that mission but > succeeds in creating a culture of exclusion, fear > and faux superiority. > > 4. We can maintain the purity of the teaching > without becoming Nazis about it. > > Perhaps others can contribute other answers. I > would hope we could hear your answer, Off World. > > - Patrick Gillam
If the "pure" technique you wish to "protect" were doing its job and offering its practitioners a suitable pace of spiritual growth, how many people would be even *interested* in seeing other teachers? I know of quite a few organizations for which this is the case. They never have to come up with "rules" about seeing other teachers, because 1) the desire to do so rarely comes up in their followers, and 2) even if it does, they have no problem with the followers switching over to the other teachers or following both paths. These paths don't fear comparison to others, because they know that they will fare well in that comparison. Why is it that TM fears the same comparison? 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/
