Sorry, I thought I responded directly to you in that original posting. Shrug.
As for the rest, it is certainly possible though, I think that even MMY's nephew wants to maintain an aura of scientific respectability so the schism won't be near as obvious as you suggest. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson <ameradian2@...> wrote: > > L., no wonder I never saw it. I did not read any posts in this thread. > Normally I don't read other threads here unless they pertain directly to > meditation. I don't read the political ones, nor a variety of other threads. > The e-mail you sent, and its relevancy, I think falls upon how you want to > define TM. In your e-mail you are pressing the points based only on the > meditative technique and the state of consciousness that it produces. > Nevertheless, when viewed through the prism of religious scholarship, I think > any scholar would see the TM organization is being profoundly steeped in > Hinduism. There are so many points of contact between the TM organization and > normative Hindu beliefs that I don't think anyone can really question that. > Personally, I have always viewed Maharishi as being a perfectly orthodox > Hindu, at least within his own Advaita tradition. By the way, my old TM > teacher has told me that he thought that one day there would be a bifurcation > of > the organization. There would be a Western branch and an Indian branch. The > Western branch would emphasize exactly the points that you have brought up > here and no doubt divest itself of some of the more overt mystical and Hindu > elements. The Indian branch, would of course, cloak itself in the garb of > Hinduism, which is entirely appropriate. Anyway, I am sorry I missed this, > but I didn't read any posts in this particular thread. Was this the > particular link you were pointing out in your other post to me? > Cheers > Bill >
