--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Here are a few quick questions to either the TM True > Believers on this forum or to those who don't "identify > with" the modern TMO but still see it as the "custodian > of the purity of the teaching" in the sense that it's > the only place you'd ever consider going to learn tech- > niques of meditation. Those questions are: > > 1. Do you feel that you have already learned "everything > there is to learn" in the world of meditation and tech- > niques of self discovery?
Of course not. And I don't have that goal. Why would it necessarily be beneficial to have that goal? > 2. If your answer to number 1 is "No," do you believe that > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi defined/invented/cognized ALL of the > possibly useful techniques of meditation and self discovery > before he died? Of course not. > 3. If your answer to number 2 is "No," what leads you to > believe that there will EVER be any new techniques of > meditation or self discovery taught by the TMO? Nothing. In fact I hope there won't be. > It seems to me that to continue to hold the TMO as the > only "trusted source" for techniques of meditation and self > discovery, one has to believe that Maharishi defined/ > invented/cognized them ALL before he died, and somehow > left instructions for teaching them to others. > > Cuz there just ain't gonna be anything new coming from > anyone else within the TMO. > > First, no one has the ability TO define/invent/cognize > anything new, and second, the hierarchy of the organization > would not allow it because it wouldn't "come from the master," > Maharishi himself. All innovation in the organization died > with him. > > I guess this is fine if you're either content with what > you've learned so far and don't think there is any place > in your life for learning more (or more than the TM courses > you have not paid for yet). But I'm curious as to how those > who have "signed on for life" to the TMO as the "sole source" > of valid spiritual knowledge deal with the fact that it's a > dead, static body of knowledge that will never grow or expand > in the future. DO you ever deal with this? Doesn't it *bother* > you? Just curious. >
