Post of the month, maybe of the year. Comment below. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote: > > TM cannot exist without the TMO. Warts and all, it > is the only organization capable of teaching TM so > that it remains TM, a simple mental technique, > rather than some watered down version that loses its > effectiveness. Maharishi's great gift to the world > was a systematic way to allow the mind to transcend. > > IMO the foundation of Maharishi's worldwide TMO is > secure enough to endure leadership foibles and > growing pains just as it always has. It will always > have detractors, saints, dummies and TM teachers off > the reservation who will teach, who knows what. > Regardless, the TMO is the only reliable glue that > can hold the teaching of TM together in perpetuity > or at least for a very long time. <snip>
The argument can certainly be made that the TMO shouldn't be a crusading, messianic organization, but that's how its founder saw it from the very beginning, and there isn't really anything that can be done about it now; it isn't going to change in that regard. You're always going to have blindly devoted people running a messianic organization, and there will always be some who commit excesses of one sort or another. The TMO is what it is. As MMY used to say, "The movement has its own karma." It's one thing to criticize the movement; goodness knows it deserves criticism. But it seems absurd to me to attack it so ferociously. It seems *especially* weird to ferociously attack those who decline to attack it ferociously, as if such attacks on the movement were the only acceptable way to respond to it, as if the attitude generating the attacks were the only RIGHT one to have and any other was despicably WRONG. It really is the mirror image of the TB stance that is so often the target of scorn here. That irony seems to be lost on many of the TM critics.
