--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > off_world_beings wrote: > > > > I think you need to answer the question > > I asked several posts back about keeping > > the purity of the teaching. > > Yes, this is the Big Question. Around here, people > seem to have answered it in a number of ways:
(Not sure if these are your answers or just those that you've seen elsewhere and are reproducing, but I'm going to respond, if I may, as if they were yours.) > 1. No one I know wants to fiddle with the basic > instructions for TM or the TM-Sidhis, so the whole > "preservation of knowledge" emphasis is irrelevant. ??? There are plenty of folks who want to fiddle, and *have* fiddled, with the basic instructions. > 2. The knowledge of TM is not so special as to > deserve special treatment. Making it out to be > special has more to do with cult indoctrination > than with keeping the barbarians from the gate. Sure about that? > 3. The purity will inevitably be lost; creating an > orthodoxy to preserve it fails in that mission but > succeeds in creating a culture of exclusion, fear > and faux superiority. It doesn't fail to preserve it among the orthodox. > 4. We can maintain the purity of the teaching > without becoming Nazis about it. This I'd agree with, but different people may draw different lines to distinguish who's a Nazi and who isn't. 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/
