--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], kaladevi93 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > There are many TM TBers here. If you think otherwise, you're > > either blind, stupid or insane. > > Or, you are so much one yourself that you cannot > see the phenomenon you are an integral part of. > > If you honestly, truly believe that TM is the > "best" or the "most effective" technique of > meditation on the planet, and you have never > practiced another one except out of a book, you > are a TB. If you honestly, truly believe that > TM is "unique," and you have never practiced > another technique except out of a book, you > are a TB. > > The amazing thing is to see the TBs *deny* that > they *are* True Believers, while holding to > positions like, "TM is better and more effective > than any other technique of meditation on the > planet," when they have *never really studied > any others*. *Anyone* except a TB can see that > and identify it as True Believerism. *Only* a TB > could say such a thing and deny that they are one. > > I mean, it's equivalent to saying, "I don't *need* > to practice any other technique to know the "facts" > about it, and that TM is superior. *What I have been > told* about it by Maharishi is all that I need to > know to make that assessment. > > Yeah, right. > It doesn't really matter much whether someone is a TB of TM, or not. If they practice TM and find it effective, why try to get them to try something else? If they are doing TM and think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread, so what? Better to have them continue with that thinking and the TM, so that the meditation practice continues to move them closer to liberation, than having them doubt the practice and harm their ability to gain liberation quickly. Spiritual liberation is not a debate, it is a personal choice.
Carrying it one step further, let's say someone here on FFL is so persuasive and descriptive about their belief that TM is the be all and end all of meditation that someone else reading is thoroughly convinced of TM's singularly great benefit, and begins TM (a highly unlikely scenario, I admit...). What is the harm? Why put yourself in the position of trying to prove others' favorable opinions of TM as wrong or incorrect? If the practice doesn't agree with them, they will simply quit, as the vast majority of those who learned have.
