Iranitea, this essay of yours is extremely topical around here. There is a lot in play right now and this is so much of what the overt wrangling between strict Maharishi guideline preservationists on one hand and TM progressives of the meditating community on the other. There's an evident confusion of the administrative guidelines with the teaching on the part of the MMY guideline preservationists. It's a very small group now that drives this trying to hold everyone else hostage to their point of view which is absolute in their minds. Of course, in the meantime a lot of meditators have left and gone away whilst our strict MMY guideline preservationists are not even close to either waging peace or reconciliation in their position with the meditating community. It seems to be a hard fought contention and the preservationists expect absolute terms of surrender for everyone in the discussion.
With Kind Regards, -Buck in Fairfield --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea <no_reply@...> wrote: > > When I first signed the agreement form, it as just short before we received > the TM initiator initiation, I thought that it was a mere formality, and I > thought that the term purity of the teaching related to teaching the 7 steps > of TM. 7 steps. Intro lecture, prep lecture, personal interview, initiation - > the puja, the mantras, the 'steps', and the 3 days checking. That's it, I > thought. > > But now I learn, that signing this agreement form, was like signing a blanco > checque, that anything could be added to this term, be it Ayurveda, Vastu, > Maharishi Jyotish, Maharishi natural products etc etc. > > And now I learn, that the purity of the teaching relates to all of them, and > we don't even know what is yet to come, which will fall under this term. The > purity of the teaching is really a whore. > > Knowing all this development, we should have at least have one week of > lectures just about the agreement form. I think there was one lecture by > Maharishi, playing it more or less down. > > At the times I signed it first, there were no domes yet, no group flying, no > Ayurveda, no Vastu or Maharishi Jyotish, no Maharishi honey etc. > > What I find unforgivable, is the fact, that the group program, which is > really the holy grail of the movement is being instrumentalized as a means of > punishment, of sanctioning, and if Buck is correct, to impart the rules they > make, would allow them to spy on people and behave in a manner which only the > secret service does. And even more so, do this out of a basically economic > reason, as several posters here agree. Where is the purity of the teaching in > all this? > > At the moment I learned about the purity of the teaching, it was about > 'capture the fort, and all else will be given to you'. No need for special > services and add on techniques. Now you are jeopardizing the purity of the > teaching if you buy the wrong house, or the wrong honey or the get the wrong > horoscope. And of course, you didn't know anything about this, hen you signed > this paper at your TTC. > > As long as people feel this commitment to go to the domes, or as long as they > want to participate in the common group program, so long the movement will > have you in their hands, they will be able to control people. > > I cannot feel such a commitment on the basis of the experiences I had when > starting to meditate. While I see the value of TM, especially for the > beginner, I don't see it's exclusiveness. Transcendence to me predates any > experience, I had anticipations of transcendence before TM, I had experiences > before too. > > And, of course, I had many experiences after. So I cannot fee obliged my > whole life to one particular experience, and let it enclose my life in one > particular pattern. >
