--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Peter wrote: > > > > You might characterize the TMO as a religion, but the > > techniques themselves I have a hard time seeing as > > religious in nature. > > I, too, have a hard time seeing the techniques as > religious. But there's been talk in this forum of the > mantras being devas that the teacher charges with > shakti before giving to the meditator. >
> So here we have a funny situation. I've been using > my mantra for 31 years, during which time I've received > no hint that it is anything other than a meaningless sound. > Yet people in the know tell me it is an ishta-deva -- "the > god one prays most" (Wikipedia). Now, how do I convince > someone that TM is not somehow religious? > ************** Because the correct use of the mantra in TM requires that no meaning be assigned to the mantra during the practice of TM -- what meanings people want to assign or not assign outside of meditation has nothing to do with TM. Because Irishmen think a certain way about the color green does not mean that anybody else has to think the same way -- if Hindus want to see those meaningless sounds in TM as being associated with some being, who cares? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
