[FairfieldLife] Re: Thought for the Day . . .

[awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 “It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” - G.K. 
Chesterton 

 It's more of a test of how twisted, dogmatic and closed-minded it's followers 
are. Humans have a tendency to distort things, to put it mildly.
 

 Q: How does every Islamic joke start?  
 A: By looking over your shoulder.

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thought for the day..

[fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Thank you! Always nice to have a ray of sunshine into the thicket.
 

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 So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
 
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855-1919

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thought for the Day

[shukra69]

He was responding to a question , he was being less doctrinaire about this than 
David Lynch(the new Maharishi) is now. Not that there is anything wrong with 
that.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance no_re...@... wrote:

 
 30 or 40 thousand teachers of TM I have trained, and many of them have gone 
 on their own, and they may not call it Maharishi's TM, but they are teaching 
 it in some different name here and there... doesn't matter, as long as the 
 man is getting something useful to make his life better, we are satisfied.
 
 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Press Conference, May 14, 2003.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thought for the Day

[sparaig]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance no_re...@... wrote:

 
 30 or 40 thousand teachers of TM I have trained, and many of them have gone 
 on their own, and they may not call it Maharishi's TM, but they are teaching 
 it in some different name here and there... doesn't matter, as long as the 
 man is getting something useful to make his life better, we are satisfied.
 
 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Press Conference, May 14, 2003.



But they can't call it Maharishi's TM...

And MMY maybe satisfied that TM is getting taught, even outside the TMO,
but are you seriously suggesting that he was endorsing non-TMO teaching as
a good way to learn TM?



L.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thought for the Day

[scienceofabundance]

Sparaig: I am quoting him...I cannot read his mind.

Science


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance no_reply@ wrote:
 
  
  30 or 40 thousand teachers of TM I have trained, and many of them have 
  gone on their own, and they may not call it Maharishi's TM, but they are 
  teaching it in some different name here and there... doesn't matter, as 
  long as the man is getting something useful to make his life better, we are 
  satisfied.
  
  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Press Conference, May 14, 2003.
 
 
 
 But they can't call it Maharishi's TM...
 
 And MMY maybe satisfied that TM is getting taught, even outside the TMO,
 but are you seriously suggesting that he was endorsing non-TMO teaching as
 a good way to learn TM?
 
 
 
 L.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thought for the Day

[sparaig]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance no_re...@... wrote:

 Sparaig: I am quoting him...I cannot read his mind.
 
 Science
 
 

Well, in the context of everything else, where he emphasized the importance
of an organization to preserve the purity of the teaching, it seems obvious to
me that he wasn't ranking independent TM teachers and those sponsored by
the TMO as being the same. He was satisified if someone going to an independent
teacher was getting the TM program, even if it wasn't called that, but it seems
obvious he wasn't saying who needs the TMO these days?


It seems a bit disingenuous to assume that the weight of most of his previous
comments on purity of the teaching should be ignored simply because he
said he was satisfied if someone had gotten some benefit from TM outside the
TM organization.

Likewise, his caveat is that they're [the student\ getting the same thing  
which
can only be guaranteed via a central licensing organization so to imply he
was suggesting the TMO was redundant or superfluous is also disingenuous, 
IMHO.




L.