--- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm only half joking I know someone who has bought a sv > apartment and his contract states that the TMO reserves > the right to enter his house if they think he has changed > anything, even the layout of the kitchen or the colour > of the wallpaper.
Your story reminds me of a wonderful L.A. TM Center meeting I attended back in 1978. A group of...uh... overzealous Governors proposed that they make a tour of the homes of other TM teachers in the area to make sure they didn't have any Off The Program books on their shelves or anything else that would "reflect badly on Maharishi or suggest that TM teachers needed anything that was offered by other traditions." After they made this suggestion, I stood up and seconded it, saying that recently I had been in the homes of several TM teachers and had seen books on their shelves by Yogananda, Carlos Castaneda, Ramana Maharshi, and Tibetan teachers. As I was saying this, expressing my horror at seeing such things, I was careful to look directly at each of the five people who had made the proposal, subtly conveying the message that it was *their* homes and *their* book- shelves I was talking about. The motion was tabled, and never made it to a vote. :-)
