Do you think Maharishi himself is responsible for the rigidity ot the
True Blue Believer.??
Hardcore TB's simply cannot comprehend the complex nature of this
Universe. They lap up one version of the Universe taught by the TM-org and get
struck in it. Soon it becomes a dogma.
In MMYyahoogroup, they accused me of being a CIA agent. I guess being
stalked by a CIA agent makes them feel important.??
It's important to listen to a wide range of opinions. It gives you a
much broader view of the Universe.
My humble opinion, ' TM runs on a black budget'
John Hagelin worked in Area 51.
TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:43:14 -
Subject: [FairfieldLife] The inability to tell opinion from preaching
Rick,
In all honesty I think that subsequent followups
to this exchange answered some of the questions
you pose above.
You stated an opinion. I stated one in reply. One
person saw that exchange of two opinions as
"preaching" to her about how she should live
her life.
If there is one thing that characterizes the TMer
in my experience (as opposed to seekers in other
spiritual traditions), it is the tendency to view
any opinion other than their own as an attempt to
"preach" to them or "convert" them in some way.
I honestly think that a lot of this comes from the
approach taught to TM teachers ("Every question is
a perfect opportunity for the answer we have already
prepared.") and drummed into the heads of TMers
in every lecture. TM teachers, like Maharishi, tend
to be *incapable* of saying, "I don't know." They
also (like Maharishi) tend to be dogmatic in their
statements, implying that the answers they give to
every question are the "definitive" answers, the
"correct" answers, the "Truth."
Therefore, when someone who has been exposed to this
for years or decades encounters an opinion that is
different from their own, they tend to think that
the other person is doing what *they* do when they
express *their* opinions -- attempting to state that
their opinions are "definitive, " and "correct" and
the "Truth," and any other opinion is wrong.
Some of us aren't. I don't think you do that when
you post your opinions to FFL. I don't think that
Alex does that, or Marek, or Hugo, or many others.
They're just expressing an opinion, one among many.
There is not an *ounce* of trying to "sell" these
opinions in what they write, or of trying to "con-
vert" others to consider them "Truth." They're just
opinions.
These are the people I resonate with most on FFL.
Conversations with them are easy and wonderful,
because nobody is trying to sell anyone anything.
They're just expressing opinions.
And yet many of the diehard TM believers see these
very conversations as provocative, or challenging,
or even as attacks on their beliefs. Go figure.
As a real followup to the questions you posed in
your original post, I think that part of the reason
that FFL degenerates into argumentation and noise
is that so many people were systematically *taught*
to react to any opinion that is different than
their opinion *as if* it is some kind of attack.
That's the whole rationale behind being "Off The
Program," that these people who have chosen to
believe something "improper" or "wrong" are doing
HARM to the faithful True Believers by holding
these erroneous opinions. They must be *stopped*
from holding them, and if they *can't* be stopped,
they must be Sent Away, where they cannot infect
the True Believers with their heresies.
Why is there so much argumentation on TM forums?
Because TMers have been *taught* to argue for the
supremacy and "correctness" of the TM dogma, and to
actively *suppress* any opinion that deviates from
the TM dogma.
This is my OPINION, and I'm sticking to it. At
least until my next post, in which I might have a
different opinion. :-) This OPINION is not intended
as "preaching" to anyone, or as a suggestion as to
how they should lead their lives. If they get off
on getting offended by opinions that differ from
their own, *by all means* they should continue to
do so. I'll continue to laugh at them, and that
laughter is an opinion in itself. The laughter is
not a form of preaching; it's just an expression
of being amused.
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