--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > >>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > >> > >> > ><curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > >>>>"Remember: this is the guy who told Andrew Skolnick that TM > >>>>teacherwere taught to lie" > >>>> > >>>> > >>>Was it your experience of TTC that leads you to challenge that > >>>statement about what teachers were taught? > >>> > >>> > >>Other teachers of TM want to weigh in? Were you taught to lie? > >> > >> > > > >Absolutely. About the contents of the puja, about > >whether or not people were asked to kneel during > >it, about the number of mantras and how they were > >selected, and about certain "hot button" subjects > >that were likely to come up in lectures or in > >interviews. For the latter, we were taught "pat > >answers" to use in each situation, answers that > >in many cases we knew not to be true. We were also > >taught things to say about other forms of meditation > >(that most of us had never practiced) that were 1) > >negative and 2) not true. > > > >But Sparaig won't believe this, and he similarly > >won't believe any other TM teacher who chimes in > >and answers his question with a hearty "Yes." > >He's interested in perpetuating his fantasies that > >what he was told was Truth, not in realizing that > >many of the things he was told were calculated > >lies. > > > The biggest lie I can think of was the notion that the TM technique > comes from the Shankaracharya which they claim it does not. I think > that annoys most TM teachers I know. Whether MMY made it up or found > it in an ancient text he owes it to his teachers the real source of the > techniques. For those who live a "spiritually sheltered" life and are > not aware there are many methods of teaching the public yogic meditation > among them methods based on astrology, ayurveda, favorite deity and > Hindu stages of life. >
Who "they?" Annoop Chandola was taught to meditate by Swami Shantananda Saraswati, and he's under the impression that he learned TM or something extremely similar to it. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
