--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > And what do you say to this quote from Larry > > Domash's introductory essay to the first volume > > of the Collected Papers? > > You didn't ask me, but reading it, it honestly > sounds made up to me. In fourteen years, I never > heard Maharishi talk this way, or even close.
Er, well, presumably it would be Domash putting what MMY told him into his own words, so if he did get it from MMY, it's not really surprising that it wouldn't sound like him. > I've never heard anything even remotely like this. > I think Domash just came up with something that > he thought was true, and wrote it down. Could be. However... > Unlike you, I don't believe that Maharishi reads > all the stuff that goes into the books. I've seen > otherwise. If he read this, he probably thought, > "Well, this sounds as good as anything else" and > let it slide. But it doesn't strike me as having > come from anything he actually said. ...given his insistence on giving Guru Dev credit for (almost) everything, I kinda doubt that he would have let pass something that made it clear he had come up with the technique and not Guru Dev, if that had not been the case. But Domash's account does raise more questions than it answers. If, as Domash says, it *did* become clear to MMY "that the common idea of what meditation was supposed to be was in fact a complete distortion of the original meaning of the ancient procedure," then-- as Robert just asked--what *was* Guru Dev teaching? If Guru Dev was encouraging MMY in his exploration and experimentation, did that mean he thought MMY was on to something he, Guru Dev, hadn't figured out? Was Guru Dev teaching the distorted version? It's not even completely clear from the essay *when* MMY came up with the technique, before or after Guru Dev's death. There's a lot more to the account than what I quoted; if anyone is interested, the first half of Domash's essay can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/j3xzd (After the account of TM's development, the rest of the first half, as well as the second half--which was never posted--goes into the history of the movement and then gets into the scientific stuff.) Regardless of the authenticity of what he says about how TM came to be, Domash's description of how it works is extraordinarily clear. It's worth a read just from that perspective. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/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/
