Domash was a smart guy, I'm sure he has read the Garland of Letters like anyone else, it was even in the MERU library in the Sonnenberg as all other of Woodroffe's books. He wrote what he was allowed to write, and his was a devotional act, I don't blame him for that. I think he was a very thoughtful guy, but he knew exactly what he could afford to do, and what he couldn't.
Coming to think of it, the movement should really install a team that researches the history of TM, how it developed, from the earliest sources. Something similar happened to Eckankar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckankar where the present leadership installed a committee to internally investigate the emergence and source of the teachings, after it became clear, that it's founder had plagiarized much material, and it was basically an offshot of Sant Mat and Radhasoami. ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: Or maybe because he didn't have a clue at all about what tantric traditions are. If he did he might have wound up booted from the movement. Gotta keep "the purity of the teaching" ya know. :-D On 10/09/2013 08:24 AM, Share Long wrote: Testing. Richard, maybe Domash didn't mention the tantric origins because Westerners can have such a narrow view of what tantra is. And that view does not include being a recluse! On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 10:18 AM, Richard J. Williams <punditster@...> mailto:punditster@... wrote: It sounds to me like you wanted to believe there was pie up in the sky, but you failed to get any. Maybe you sucked as a baker or maybe you just couldn't sit still to do a simple kindergarden yoga pose. Go figure. Maybe you just conned yourself - at any rate, it must have been a powerful experience, since you're still talking about it after all these years. LoL! On 10/8/2013 12:26 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: you knew him better than I did, but nah, it wasn't revolutionary, just another con man using the best con man's trick in the world, i.e. the best cons are ones that contain some truth, or have something that is of some value. Let's not forget that the term con artist means confidence artist. A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, in the classical sense of trust. In David Mamet's film House of Games, the main con artist gives a slightly different description of the "confidence game". He explains that, in a typical swindle, the con man gives the mark his own confidence, encouraging the mark to in turn trust him. The con artist thus poses as a trustworthy person seeking another trustworthy person. From: turquoiseb <[email protected]> mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] mailto:[email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 8:16 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Siddha Tradtions --- In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], Michael Jackson wrote: > > what about it was revolutionary? He wasn't the only Indian guru > who came to the states and europe to promote his schtick you know. It was revolutionary in that he found a way to present a technique of meditation designed for beginners, as a mere starting point from which to explore more interesting techniques, as the "end point" of meditation itself. In other words, he presented a kindergarten level of meditation as "the best, most effective form of meditation on the planet," and convinced millions of people it was true. I'd call the chutzpah of that pretty revolutionary, wouldn't you? :-)
