> > Buck, just how does the TMO define 'a Saint'? > > How do they define the lines that are crossed? >
Saints? Guru Dev [SBS], Maharisbh's teacher instructed people to sit with them. Maharishi sent people too. Saints like Sat Gurus evidently are a [necessary] part of the spiritual territory at our level of discussion. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > Look, Bevan's anti-saint axiom on this is that meditators who go to see > > saints may confuse other people who are seeing them thus about the > > sufficiency and effectiveness of TM altogether. This is matter of faith. > > And II, that these meditators should be hunt down as fugitives and punished > > also as a matter of faith by removal or refusal of Dome meditation badges. > > Of course a long problem with Bevan's axiom is that most of the meditating > > community does not believe it or take it as a matter of faith. That leaves > > Bevan and a few people around him by themselves as the inner movement. > > Hence the TM anti-saint faithful inside vs. the practitioner meditator > > movement. It's a bad civil war about faith in axiom. > > Buck, just how does the TMO define 'a Saint'? > Or suppose a Catholic meditator took courses from priests in some kind of > meditation, some kind of contemplation. > Or a Buddhist who visits a Buddhist monestery? > > How do they define the lines that are crossed? > > Personally I am not interested in saints. But suppose I read a book by one? > For example, I have a book called the Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of > the Cross. Not a Hindu saint of course. Sometimes I skim through books by > Krishnamurti. >
