--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > wrote: > --- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > > The obvious question is WHY? > > > > > > WHY is Maharishi so threatened by the idea of his > > > students being exposed to the knowledge of other > > > spiritual traditions, or to its teachers? ( And, > > > as Paul has pointed out, even the knowledge spoken > > > by his *own* teacher? ) > > > > > > THAT seems to me to be an issue worthy of explor- > > > ing. There seems to be no question that Maharishi > > > has created an entire belief system that is designed > > > to teach his students to avoid and even be fearful > > > of knowledge that comes from anyone but him. > > > > > > But WHY? > > > > > > Why? Intense Trademark Positioning & Marketing all along. > > That's certainly one explanation. > > > Purity of the teaching? > > That's another, and probably the one that the TBs > will cling to out of hope. > I tend to see it as a question of common sense. If I am being taught to drive in the US on the right side of the road, and before I am confident in my skills I take a trip to the UK, and someone says, hey, I'll teach you to drive on the left, this would be very confusing to me. I wouldn't accomplish my goal learning to drive on the right, nor would I learn to drive on the left.
As for why Maharishi feels strongly about practioners of TM not doing other techniques, much has been said recently about his devotion to Guru Dev. If he feels this is the best way to support Guru Dev's intentions, he doesn't want to compromise, and so discourages other techniques. The reason I see this issue this way is that I tend to believe in the fundamental goal and actions of Maharishi, for now. The point here is that two people can look at exactly the same thing and reach two completely opposed conclusions. The object observed remains the same, but the perception of it is completely different. This is just the way it continues to work out for me with regard to what Maharishi is doing. In the present. Does this make me a 'True Believer'? No. Why not? Because each and every thing that Maharishi does, and every word that he speaks that I evaluate, is evaluated on its own merit, at the time. A 'True Believer' would instead have a knee-jerk reaction to everything Maharishi does as appropriate, even before he did it... and I must say, I don't see that TB behavior on this board. Sparaig and Judy have both been accused of being TBs, and yet I see that they always consider their responses. No knee jerking. Even TurquoiseB does not knee-jerk his responses. He just sees what Maharishi does as fundamentally flawed or incomplete (I don't mean to put words in your mouth...), and comments on it, after some thought as well. The point being that it becomes easy to dismiss some of us as TBs or TNBs, but I don't see those labels as useful, or valid, to our discussions here. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/zAINmC/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/
