on 5/1/05 11:41 PM, Bob Brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> > > MMY is a great saint, but even if you don't think so, you should > recall what MMY said when people complained about the behavior of TM > teachers: "Even a sick man can open a health food store." TM is a > mechanical technique that does require any particular qualities of > heart and mind on the part of the practitioner or the teacher (maybe > a TM teacher would have to have an IQ of 60 or above, that's > necessary for memorizing the checking notes, unless they were also > autistic, in which case great feats of memorization are possible). A > TM teacher memorizes a few simple instructions, and imparts them. > That is the beauty of TM, the mechanical means to enlightenment, the > only type available to people when they live at a low level of life. > Questions about personal characteristics of anybody imparting a > mechanical technique are a smoke screen for ignorant people who are > uncomfortable with values of enlightenment.
This is a key point. Whatever mistakes M may have made in his personal or managerial life don't invalidate the benefits of TM. Conversely, the effectiveness of TM doesn't necessarily imply that M is faultless. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
