--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > On the other hand, I agree with Shiva Ma's point that if you're practicing > MMY's program as taught, nothing added or deleted,
I think practicing PURE TM may get a bit complex for someone who has practiced a lot of other stuff. I suggest this as a possibility, not a fact. For example, Rick, as i understand it, you practice the mechanics of TM, but with an Amma mantra. After some years of doing that, if (hypothetically) you were in the domes promising to only do TM, your intent I am sure would be pure to do so. But your mind is used to the Amma mantra. Surely, that would arise as a thought. A charming one. I suspect a subtle "conflict" or at least diversion might arise as awareness takes TM mantra, then Amma mantra comes. I know Amma mantra would be "just like any other thought". But I sense things would get muddled. So it may not be PURE TM -- even if you intended such. Of course an separate issues is -- does it matter, if you are transcending. My view is no, but if its not pure TM, I understand a POV (TMO's) that PURE TM is what is desired in the domes. And flying can get pretty wild. All sorts of stuff emerges. i can envision a quite wierd but funny scene as persons of different extra-curricula spiritual activities -- cluster and or "face" off other groups, packs of one group or another like in pro bike races .. And the mental (sub)vocal stuff emerging -- from the chanters and bhajanees. Think about it. it could be quite the zoo, Perhaps a wonderful zoo. And something that should occur somewhere sometime. However, I GET IT, that the TMO does not want that in the DOMES. >you should be allowed to > practice it in the dome. This is a recurring POV that implies an entitlement. (Though your words may be just casual use and not explicitly intending such an implication.) Participating in the domes is NOT an entitlement. And its certainly not some universal entitlment of Nature. Its the activity of a private venture / club / school. As many acknowledge, the owners of the "club" can set any qualifications and requirements they want (as long as they are not racial, gender, etc. discriminatory). What intrigues me is the large sense of entitlement that many appear to have. Its sort of like me saying, "I really should be permitted to attend Harvard, because I can really make a big contribution to the acadmetics and culture there (unsupported assertion). And its the pinnacle of academic activity in the US and World. I DESERVE to take part in it. Its my birthright!" Of course the above Harvard claim is silly. However, it appears parallel to a lot of those (whiners?) who act as if participating in the domes is an entitlement. >Anything outside of that is your personal business > and I think MUM shoots itself in the foot by concerning itself with that. We can all backseat drive MUM, the TMO and MMY's plans. But thats all it is -- backseat driving, armchair quarterbacking, etc. Maybe they (note the "they" not "we" -- we are not longer the "movement") are shooting themselves in the foot. Thats what freedom of choice is all about. To be able to do wild and crazy things we think are useful WITHOUT having to get permission from others or society or the gov't. The TMO may seem crazy to you, but maybe they are onto something you don't get (probably not -- but "hey") and should be free to do their wild and crazy things. 100 wild and crazy orgs will yield one or two that are quite useful -- when "everyone" thought "huh?" back when they were just a wild and crazy thing. > To > whatever degree this policy has preserved the purity of the teaching (if > there is such a thing), Which is up to the TMO to determine the purity of THEIR teaching. "Purity of the teaching" is not a universal force of Nature -- though many act as if it were. >it has harmed it and created bad feelings to a much > greater degree. Perhaps. And that is a tradeoff the TMO had made. not really your concern, IMO. >But it's not my university, Yes. >and if that's the way they want > to operate, it's their choice. Yes. >That too is well and wisely put. Yes. So why dwell on it all? Yes. 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/
