--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 8/18/05 4:28 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It's great isn't it. We inherit all sorts of wierd and wonderful > >> belief systems. We say, our generation will not follow these > >> things we are determined to think for ourselves. Some Indian guy > >> offers a method of clearing the mind and tapping into the > >> unlimited source of inner contentment and before you know it, > >> people are making all he says and thinks into a belief system > >> too. > > > > Sometimes it just boggles my mind to see this, not > > just in the TMO but across the board in Western > > organizations that follow Eastern traditions. It's > > like they assume that just because a teacher tells > > them one thing that seems to be true, or teaches > > them one technique that seems to be useful, that > > *everything* he says has to be true and useful. > > But Maharishi encouraged this kind of thinking by teaching that an > enlightened man can do no wrong, and by insisting that people in > the movement attune themselves to "his thinking".
I agree. And while I disagree strongly with the idea that the enlightened can do no wrong, I think there is a value in attuning oneself to their thinking. As long as one retains the ability to know when to "unattune." ------------------------ 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/
