--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > I beleive that Maharishi has "total knowledge," so do I, so do you. > > It is conceivable, at least to me,that MMY's access to "total > > knowledge" is "better" than mine, but that's not the same thing as > > saying he's perfect. > > > > I think the B&W thinking represents a misunderstanding of what MMY > > means by the term. > > I suspect it ties into something Jim Flanegin said > earlier: > > "IMO Maharishi is demonstrating regularly and spectacularly to anyone > that pays attention to him that enlightenment or awakening or > Brahman or whatever you want to call it, is NOT achieved by > following the Master. > [...]> Not necessarily. With regard to those in eternal > freedom, all bets are off. We can't evaluate whether > a person does or does not have "total knowledge" by > what they do.
I think this is an entirely different issue than what MMY talks about when he says things along the lines of "total knowledge." MMY allows "Maharishi" to be used in the name of the university he founded, etc., because "Maharishi" means someone who teaches others how to become enlightened. The essential core of MMY's teaching is "self-sufficiency," as Muktananda allegedly has said. TM is about finding the "home of all the laws of nature" within, not about following the dictates of an all-knowing guru. Regardless, the issue of denying access to the Domes and so on isn't directly about whose Kung Fu is more powerful anyway: When the TMO denies dome access to followers (or even *Possible* followers) of other gurus, its not out of disrespect to the other gurus, or out of a need to keep MMY's "knowledge" "pure" in the sense it is usually meant by the TMO, but simply due to a pragmatic desire to ensure that everyone who is practicing techniques during group program at TMO facilities is practicing the techniques that MMY taught, on the assumption that the group practice of those techniques is more powerful than the singular practiceand that practice of other techniques, at best, will conceal how many are participating, and at worst might somehow interfere with the expected effects. Other issues creep in like fear of "contamination" and so on, but that's as much (in my mind) due to the TMO managers' own hangups as to anything else. Regardless, the TMO hierarchy appears to err on the side of caution, and while it seems often that they ARE in error in how they implement the policy of reserving group practice time in the TMO's domes to exclude group practice of other teachers' techniques, they ARE succeeding, on the whole, in keeping other teachers' techniques out of the TMO-sponsored group practice. For them to fail to act at all would be to fail in their assigned duties to the TMO. We can disagree on whether or not their policies are too strict, but certainly the policies seem to be having the stated desired outcome of ensuring that ONLY the techniques taught by MMY are performed in the Domes during group practice. ------------------------ 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/
