The main thing about the purity of the teaching, which had been lost in the past, is the effortlessness of the technique, which from the beginning is the undoing of effort-something quite different from any other teaching I know of. The ultimate paradox, is how you could spend so much effort, to preserve effortlessness...
-- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "markmeredith2002" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > There's no debate about the oral instruction of the technique > > Oh, yes, there is, some of it on this very forum. > > > -- the > > purity of teaching debate is how that phrase is used as an excuse to > > enforce conformity and negate competition for its businesses. > > Or whether... > > > The TMO > > spends far more time, energy and resources making sure everyone on > > campus has exactly the same color house, inside and out, facing the > > same direction, housing similarly clothed, protein-deficient bodies > > than it does on preserving the purity of oral instruction. > > The TMO has become more a religion of "the book" with innumerable > > codes of conduct, than an oral meditative tradition. > > Look, I'm not defending any of this. I wouldn't > even defend some of the implementation of the > measures to actually protect the purity of the oral > instruction. I *do* defend that principle, however, > and there *are* those who disagree with it. 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/
