--- In [email protected], "L B Shriver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "L B Shriver" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > > Personally, I feel that the "purity of the teaching" as I have > > > understood it has already been lost. There is very little there > > > left preserving, and that which is worthy of preserving can > > > best be saved outside the context of the organization. > > > > So which branch of Christianity has done the best at preserving > > the oral tradition? > > @@@@@@@@ > > I am not discussing Christianity here, so I will not bother > responding to this question.
Whoa, Lawson is setting up a point, which you seem to have missed entirely. Take another look: > > The TMO has been set up specifically to preserve its oral > > tradition. That is NOT the case for ANY major branch of the > > Christian religion, and it shows, IMHO. > > > > Whether or not the TMO approach will work for any length of time > > remains to be seen. What we CAN be sure of is that most, if not > > all, other approaches have not seemed to work. > > > > Look at Benson's Relaxation Response, based on numerous > > interviews with TMers. Look at Chopra's own meditation technique, > > and how he presents it to people. We can see the results of > > the telephone effect immediately (within a generation of > > second-handness). > > > > Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's techniques, useful or not, aren't deemed > > central to his organization, as far as I can tell, because his > > charitable works are the only pretty much the only thing > > discussed here. > > @@@@@@@@ > > Your penchant for straw man arguments could take up a lot of band > width at this rate. No, he's making a good argument. Go back and look at it again. > > MMY has always been consistent in his representation of what he > > believes is important, and I find it amusing that people > > criticize him for building an organization specifically > > designed to preserve that which he deems most important. > > @@@@@@@@ > > Surely you jest! Maharishi has changed his game plan more times > than I can recall, as has been observed time and again in this > forum. At the most obvious level, what has become of the priority > to have large numbers of ordinary people meditating, or large > numbers of Sidhas flying together, etc, etc.? You're still missing the point. Lawson isn't talking about strategies, he's talking about the need MMY perceives to preserve the purity of oral instruction in the techniques. (MMY's priorities in terms of strategies have changed as various strategies have turned out to be or not to be effective. He hasn't ever been able to achieve the level of participation necessary to make the two strategies you mention work, so he keeps trying alternate strategies to create the same effect.) 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/
