--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If you cannot supply a fairly sizable list of > > > > other teachers or traditions that taught you > > > > "one on one" their form of meditation, why > > > > should we believe that the reason you "sense" > > > > that TM is the bestest is for any other reason > > > > than because you were told that it is, and you > > > > ...dare I say it...detached from any other input, > > > > and believed what you were told to believe? > > Other than the marketing angle, I don't see any advantage > in claiming any comparisons between meditations.
IMO, only a teacher with a pretty serious inferiority complex and a need to "prove himself" to the Brahman monks who looked down on him in Guru Dev's ashram would even *think* of making such a claim. > Maharishi started this scale > system with his being the bestest and I regret buying into > that POV when I was into TM. But at least you *admit* that you bought into it. So did I. Judy can't admit that. To us, or to herself. > Now it seems like such a hollow claim on so many > levels. And it always was. That's precisely why some are afraid to admit that once, in their youth, they bought into it. Or that they still do.
