--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > IMO it is Ok even if Maharishi and the TMO feel that it > > > isn't. > > > > 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) > > Well, it's deteriorating despite (and also > in many respects because of) the TMO's best > efforts to maintain the purity--not within > the TMO itself, but outside of it. > > Whether you think the purity of the teaching > is important depends on whether you think the > teaching is definitive, of course. > > (I'm referring here to the teaching about the > nature and mechanics of consciousness, not to > any of the subsidiary stuff, politics and > Rajas and so on.)
MMY's main concern with "purity of the teaching" has always (at least how I see it) been concerning the way in which TM is taught, not the theoretical stuff, which he considers to be at best, secondary. > > > >>> And it's all so unnecessary. And so based on fear.>>>> > > > > I think it's based on logic. see above. > > Seems to me the intense, emotional resistance > to the measures for preserving the purity of > the teaching may itself be based on fear, the > fear of committing oneself (not to the TMO > per se but to the teaching). > > It's one thing to disapprove of the various > excesses of the movement control freaks that > go way beyond the logic of it; it's quite > another to tie oneself into knots about it > and start comparing it to the Inquisition > and similar outrages. That's just not a > rational response. 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/
