--- In [email protected], bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > So, Spare Egg, would you agree that, at least according to MMY's > own > > words, that "going 100% against one's original meditation > teacher's > > teachings" is not necessarily a bad thing? > > > > Citation: > > > > May 24, 2003 Press Conference > > > > http://mou.org/media/replay.cgi > > > > > > Maharishi: What I have taught, because it has > > it's eternal authenticity in > > the vedic literature and you should know that, > > how many? 30 - 40 thousand > > teachers of TM I have trained and many of them > > have gone on their own and > > they may not call it Maharishi's TM but they are > > teaching it in some > > different name here and there. So there's a lot > > of these, artificial things > > are going on, doesn't matter, as long as the man > > is getting something useful > > to make his life better, we are satisfied. > > > ****************************** > > MMY is referring to the fact that some TM teachers are teaching > authentic TM under a different name or are simply on their own, not > affiliated with the movement. MMY is not suggesting that any old > type of meditation would be OK, but simply saying that if a teacher, > whether he reports to the movement or not, and whether it calls it > TM or not, who is actually teaching TM as instructed by MMY, is > giving out something useful, and MMY is satisfied with that. > > Bob Brigante > http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates2006.html >
Chopra was never trained as a TM teacher, so its quite a stretch for people to justify Chopra teaching TM-like meditation based on MMY's reference to his students since those are obviously TM teachers, given the context. And again, the complaints that many level here about MMY not properly training people to handle unstressing/kundalini/whatever seem to apply even more to a "6-day intensive" training course on how to teach meditation. But I don't see the same people stepping up and criticizing Chopra's teaching for the same issue. Perhaps they feel that the 6-days impart all the training needed, while the 3-12-month training that TM teachers recieved was inadequate? Or perhaps they just like bashing MMY and will use any ole excuse to do so. ------------------------ 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/
