--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > What amazes me about this particular run-on piece of > > rhetoric is that none of the True Believers who read > > it seem to be standing up and saying, "Hey! Wait a > > cotton-picking minute! Isn't this the exact OPPOSITE > > message than the one you started the TM movement with?" > > > > The orginial message was one of self-sufficiency and > > hope. Transcendence (enabled by TM) was all that was > > necessary to realize one's enlightenment. The prac- > > titioner didn't need to believe in anything or anyone > > to realize enlightenment. He didn't *need* anyone or > > anything to realize enlightenment. One simply trans- > > cended, contacted infinity within himself, and over > > time came to live that infinity as an all-time reality. > > In this model, your environment and your diet and > > your medical preferences had no power to "keep you" > > from enlightenment, because the Way to enlightenment > > was completely in your own hands, via meditation. (And > > it should be stated that this original message has > > proven TRUE for many people.) > > > > ...and it was a great message and should hold as true today as it > did when he first came out with it. > > That's why I started TM. > > And that's the program -- the path -- I'm on today. > > All those that follow all this other stuff are, in my opinion, OFF > the TM Program.
That's even sillier than the silliest interpretation of MMY's words. How can you be "off the program" when following the advice of the guy who invented "the program?" Now, if MMY started to say things like "shoot yourself," or "drink poison," or "don't meditate," you might have a point, but simply because he's promoting new stuff? Nyah. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
