--- 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 >>>

You made some good points and I appreciate them.

But people should complain about the violence being perpetrated by 
fundamentalists (christian and muslim etc), and stop complaining 
about non-violence being perpetrated by what they are calling 
fundamentalists. 

Its the violence or non-violence of a group that counts....anyone 
complaining that a few people can't go to the dome is childish and 
laughable. If I want to smoke in a smoke free bar, I can't...thats 
life. If I want to swim nude in the public baths, I can't...thats 
life. Should I start waving my arms and shouting because my Pagan 
religion says I should be able to go nude anywhere I like to. No. 
Maharishi doesn't want other pactices in the Dome and that is his 
choice. People should get over it, otherwise I promise you, you will 
see me and my goat naked in the public pools soon !
OffWorld






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