--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > Did you hear that TM is a dualistic meditation from someone? > > > > > If so, I'd be curious to know who. > > > > > > > > Vaj used to be a TM teacher. You knew that, right? > > > > > > No I didn't- regardless, it is easy to see how this misperception > > > of the TM technique as a dualistic one could occur, if the > > > technique is not practiced to its fruition. > > > > It's hard for me to see how it could occur for a > > trained TM teacher (or any TMer who has been paying > > attention, for that matter), whether the technique is > > practiced to fruition or not. > > > > In any case, this particular misperception certainly > > has a lot of consequences in terms of attempted > > comparisons to other techniques/paths. > > I comment here only to point out (yet again) the > sermon on orthodoxy. And delivered by a non-TM > teacher, to boot. > > TM is all about orthodoxy. There is a "right" way > to think and act, a "right" interpretation of all > the scriptures and of individual experiences.
There's also a "right" way to ride a bicycle. <snip> > The reason I'm commenting is that I for one am > really tired of attempts to denigrate someone who > has an opinion *other* than that contained in the > official, orthodox TM dogma as having "not paid > attention" when he was part of the TM movement, or > having "misunderstood" what was said. Some of us > understood it quite well, thank you, and still do. Not including you and Vaj, among other former TM teachers, however. Opinions based on lack of understanding and inaccuracies and permeated with hostile bias aren't worth a whole heckuva lot. <snip> > Vaj, at least, seems to be able to think for himself, > something that many of his detractors cannot be > accused of. Barry to me, awhile back on alt.m.t: Vaj is more your kinda meat. He's *exactly* like you (although not as smart as you and considerably less honest). Barry to the group, awhile back on alt.m.t: The whole point of bringing this up was to see whether Vaj, who has been playing the "my lineage is better than your lineage, so I know what's true and what isn't" card since he arrived here, understands that his position is just as much based on FAITH as TMers' assumption that TM is unique or that their technique is "the best" or whatever. Barry to Vaj, awhile back on alt.m.t: > "Any scientist who can't explain what he's working > on to a twelve year old is a charlatan." > - Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" That was the "meat" of what I had to say to you. You're lazy. It seems you can only talk about these things using the terms that you are familiar with. It's much more difficult to try to put things into more universal terms so that anyone can under- stand them. That's where the metal meets the road, and you find out whether the person really knows what he's talking about or whether he's just spouting shit he's been told. It's also where you learn whether someone is just trying to communicate or is merely trying to sell his trip and puff up his ego. T'would seem that you have established which you are... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
