--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > I certainly did not mean that in a disparaging way in your regard > NM, > > I meant it merely as an observation, that from our personal > > conversations you held what I consider to be some of the primary > > qualities of a TB: the belief that TM (and perhaps, but not > > necessarily the TMSP) are great techniques that lead to > enlightenment > > and that Mahesh Varma is an enlightened being. That's all in your > > regard. > > Wow. By that definition, *I* am a TB! The mind boggles. > > Personally, I'd define a TB as someone who believes that TM/TMSP are > the best, fastest, or probably even the *only* way to get to > enlightenment, and that MMY is the best, highest, or probably even > *only* Guru who is worth His salt. IOW, anyone who thinks "my way is > better than your way" is a TB. Otherwise, you're leaving out whole > turns of the spiral, sandwiching a multicolored reality into black and > white. > > Your definition above does not even appear to allow for a genuine > Eclectic, who would hold the TM path is OK, but many other paths (or > non-paths) are equally OK. You seem to be saying we have to be "fer" > MMY or "agin" him, period. Bush-consciousness. > > Does your world really consist only of TB's for MMY and TBs against him? > > *L*L*L* > >From my own experience I'd say a TB is a point along the spiritual continuum where the Guru and path are seen as the best, fastest, etc. not only for oneself, but for everyone else, to the exclusion of others finding their own way. In other words, a fundamentalist view.
Personally, I have no problem finding TM and Maharishi as the primary technique and teacher for me- after all I grew up with both of them, and have used many expressions of Maharishi's as exercises to purify my mind, sometimes for decades on one expression, just as the TM technique has been a consistent and trusted addition to my daily life for so many years now. As comfortable as I am with that, the deeply buried treasure is mine alone, and I'll leave it to others to find their own Jewel, in their own time, and in their own way. :-)
