--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just so I understand, Lawson, you visited other teachers > > > > and noted so when asked in course applications? > > > > And you were admitted to courses with no problems? > > > > > > Nope. NEver visited other teachers. > > > > If it's confession time I visited Krishnamurti in about 1984 in > > England, but he was older than Maharishi so its ok. > > I think, Off, that I'm beginning to get a handle on when you > *think* you're being lighthearted and funny, and suspect > you think that this is one of those times. > > However, can you step back and look for a moment at the > *language* you use here, and what it implies about what > the TMO teaches and the mindset it creates in its long-time > practitioners? > > "Confession?" It's "ok?" > > IMO it is Ok even if Maharishi and the TMO feel that it > isn't. IMO there is nothing to "confess." There are times > when I am absolutely *horrified* by the lack of freedom of > action and freedom of thought that people have willingly > imposed upon themselves in the name of either "purity of > the teaching" or "devotion to one's teacher" or both. > > It's like in TM "seeing another teacher" has taken on, over > the years, the stigma of cheating on one's spouse. And that > being open to knowledge -- if the source of that knowledge > is not officially "approved" -- is similarly looked upon as if > it were cheating on the purity of knowledge itself. > > And it's all so unnecessary. And so based on fear. > > How could such a potentially liberating teaching have > been turned into a mechanism for perpetuating bondage > and enforcing ignorance? > > I mean, in this discussion you've got one guy proud of > the fact that he's only seen one spiritual teacher in his > life, even though there were many to be potentially > learned from.
I'm neither proud nor not proud. I "found" what I was "looking" for first time around (or at least stopped trying to find something "better"). Sounds to me like YOU have the problem here. Perhaps you're projecting because you're still "searching?" and resent those who have either given up or don't feel a need to? 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/
