--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, taskcentered <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > The Age of Enlightenment techniques were taught on the legendary > 6-Month Courses of the Transcendental Meditation Orgs in the > mid '70s. > > Beside being a historical curiosity, the many versions taught > point to a savage, even criminal, flaw in the Maharishi as a > guru. He's just making this stuff up as he goes along.
Just as a question, John, what makes you think that *all* gurus -- even the best of them -- weren't making much of what they taught up as they went along? Those raised within a strict tradition may have parroted the teachings of the tradition, but history is full of stories like Ramana Maharshi's, in which he had no tradition to fall back on, or Buddha's, in which he was expressly rejecting the tradition he came from. Where then did their teachings come from? Having made it up doesn't make a teaching useless, let alone criminal. *Not working* is what makes one useless.
