--- In [email protected], "wgm4u" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "suziezuzie" <msilver1951@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "wgm4u" <wgm4u@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Just wondering if the 'tradition' starts with MMY. :-) > > > > > > > > > > I don't believe that MMY ever claimed that Gurudev taught him TM. > > In fact, I recall him saying > > > that he distilled all that he had learned from Gurudev into a > > single, simple technique that he > > > called Transcendental Meditation. > > > > > If you read the papers by Charles Lutes (the book that was supposed > > to have been written but was never published. Someone posted it on > > this group), he claims Guru Dev did not teach TM to his followers > > but a form of Sri Vidya, Mother Divine worship. Lutes claims that > > before Guru Dev died he entrusted MMY with a teaching of TM as MMY > > teaches it today, mantras, etc. Lutes also claimes that the TM > > techniques was a amethod that had been known by Guru Dev but was > > held back until GD gave it to MMY. Mark > > Fascinating..do you have a link to that particular talk?
FWIW, the first volume of the Collected Papers has an introduction by Larry Domash that pretty clearly says MMY developed TM on his own. It's unlikely the intro wasn't approved by MMY, given the importance of that series of books to the movement at the time. The first half of that introduction was posted on alt.meditation.transcendental back in the early '90s; you can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/34zns4 It's a terrific essay, but if you want to get quickly to the part I mentioned, search for the phrase "unusually talented student" and start reading there.
