--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 20, 2007, at 8:56 PM, wgm4u wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > >> > >> --- In [email protected], "wgm4u" <wgm4u@> 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. > > > > Thanks............. > > All spin, I would not trust this. >
As opposed to the Masters you deal with, of course...
