Vaj wrote: > On Feb 21, 2010, at 3:08 PM, ShempMcGurk wrote: > > >> "Chopra's TM has 108 mantras, TM only 11 or 12" >> >> Ergo, Chopra's TM must be better. >> >> This is how we bought electric guitars when we were 12 years old: the more >> knobs and buttons the guitar had, the better we assumed it was. >> > > > Well 108 is potentially better than a mere 12. The real issue is that TM > teachers were taught to lie, telling unsuspecting students that mantras were > based on the individuals nervous system, developed though close collaboration > with Guru Dev, blah blah blah, bunches of lies. 108 choices would certainly > be better, if they were doled out for some individualized reason. A good > mantra yoga initiator also knows that sometimes you have to change the > students mantra. > > This is all lost on foolhardy TM teachers, who probably do more damage then > good, but pose as experts in their imaginary "Vedic" meditation tradition. > > It might be funny if it wasn't just so damn naive. > > I think of all the TM derivatives: Sahaj, Chopra's, Independent TM, etc. TM™ > remains the poorest choice, esp. given the weirdness of the Org itself. I'm > more likely to recommend a friend be audited for Thetans than I am to > recommend TM™. >
And of course any real teacher can enliven any mantra they want plus create new ones. Yoga lite only has parrots because that is all they could be trusted with. ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
