--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Behalf Of bob_brigante > > > Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 2:01 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Am I understanding this correctly? > > > > > > > > > > > > Everything is the same infinite consciousness -- what could be > > > private in any real sense? > > > > > > One of the key principles of TM initiation is (was) that the > puja > > creates an > > > atmosphere in which the minds of initiator and initiate settle > down > > close to > > > the transcendent so that the mantra can be imparted at that > level. > > > > > > > > > > Before I went to TTC, I was the "flower boy" each Saturday for > about > > 6 months. I spent hours outside of 3 initiation rooms we had at > our > > center. > > > > I had some of my most profound experiences of TM outside those > rooms > > (and keep in mind I was NOT necessarily even meditating, just > sitting > > there!). Indeed, those experiences were one of the main reasons I > > decided to become a teacher. > > > > That is why I have always been convinced that one simply cannot > learn > > TM properly WITHOUT the puja and the individual one-on-one > teaching. > > Indeed, I always understood that whenever MMY was asked about this > > and why can't we just initiate millions at a time, MMY would > always > > reply: hey, I only WISH we could do it that easily because then we > > would have millions of TMers overnight. But the reality is that > this > > is the only way it can be done properly and, besides, it is > tradition > > that it be one-on-one. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hard to > > > see how that could be accomplished by videoconference. In Nepal, > > MMY was > > > sitting with the crowd of initiates in a open air tent, and they > > all had > > > earphones. > > > > > > Gee, how did that work out? > > > Not to be a wet blanket in the face of all of this certainty about > the future of mass meditations conducted via videoconference (lol), > but I find it both wonderful and fascinating that Maharishi is so > willing to contradict his earlier statements in a single lifetime, > breaking boundary after boundary, like an elephant breaking > matchsticks. If his techniques didn't work, he'd spend a lot more > time enforcing dogma, don't you think? > > Similar to how the requirements for the TM-Siddhis kept changing; > one year of TM needed, with all instruction given in residence, to > now, what is it? one month of TM with all but the flying block at a > TM center. So ways of imparting this knowledge do change, according > to the rising consciousness amongst us all.:-)
Infinite flexsibility and infinite dynamism are qualities of Creative Intelligence. Regardless of what the naysayers think. A checking would do many people good... What some are getting mad about, because they do not move (The Movement belongs to those who move), is perhaps Maharishis strongest qualities :-)
