--- In [email protected], "chaim_laib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > I *never* encountered any > > teaching in the TM context about "blind devotion > > to one's teacher" or "becoming in tune with one's > > teacher's thinking" as "the quintessence of spiritual > > practice." > > Although Maharishi may not have ever said this explicitly-I want > you, my followers, to become in tune with my thinking-he certainly > requested this, no, demanded it in every way. If you did not do what > he said, when he said, you were out, All things are done his way or > it's the highway. After enough of this, you learn to do exactly what > you are told to do.
As a rank-and-file TMer, I never encountered this. Sure, there were rules on residence courses that you had to follow, but there were rules in school, at work, everywhere. It never occurred to me that they were intended to tell us we should be "in tune with Maharishi's thinking" in the way Barry portrays. > Also, and perhaps more to the point, how many dozens of times did > I/we hear the story, either directly from Maharishi, or on the > taped story, or rehashed/recounted by Bevan, et. al, of how > Maharishi put himself in tune with Guru Dev and in his innocent, > Trotakacharya-like self-atunement with his Guru Dev, his own > consciousness merged with Guru Dev's/Universal C'ness. I saw the taped story on a residence course once. The teacher emphasized that this was *MMY's* path and not one we were supposed to adopt. I wasn't disputing that teachers didn't get this laid on them. In context, my point was that it wasn't imposed on rank-and-file TMers, which meant that Barry had to be referring to teachers. But he said he was describing TBs on this forum, and I can't think of any TBs on this forum who are also teachers. Can you? Barry often goes on rants about "a few people here who..." when there actually aren't any such people here; he invents them for purposes of the rant. This was just another example, and it was the only reason I raised the point. > This was told over and over and many Westnerns took this to mean > that if they want to rise to the heights of enlightenment they > need to do the same. People will tell you this in nearly plain > English by (selectively) following things Maharishi has said and > parroting back, "Maharishi said...." Oh, NONSENSE!! It depends *entirely* on the context whether "Maharishi sez..." has that connotation. You're doing what Barry does and conflating "This is what MMY sez..." with "What MMY sez is True." <snip> 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/
