--- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], > "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What exactly is purity of the teaching? Go to see > 5 different > > Maharishi Jyotishis and you'll get 5 different > readings using 5 > > different approaches, but if a jyotishi trained at > maharishi jyotish > > courses and using his training faithfully decides > to stop giving the > > right % of his revenues to the mov't, then he'll > be called a threat to > > the purity of the teaching and have his badge > revoked. There are many > > similar cases in the tmo in which purity of > teaching seems to just be > > an excuse to protect revenues. MMY changed his > method of teaching TM > > drastically when he came to west and initiators > know that even the > > method of choosing mantras has been changed over > time. Instructions > > regarding program are constantly changing. It > seems to me that > > misusing the term "purity of the teaching" for > purely economic reasons > > is itself the biggest threat to the purity of the > teaching these days. > > Since MMY created the teaching procedure himself (or > so he says and I have no reason to > doubt him) his decision to tweak the procedure is > STILL maintaining "the purity of the > teaching." Its HIS "teaching" afterall... > > Of course, this is so obvious that I'm left > wondering if you're raising serious concerns or > are merely complaining because you want to see your > words in print. > > (and people complain because *I* type too much on > this forum). I always see the ultimate purity of the teaching as based in the enlivenment of pure consciousness in the followers. Look at the holy tradition. What links these guys is not specific practices, but the enlivenment of consciousness. Based on this criteria, the only successful "graduate" of the TM program is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar! > > > > > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs 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/
