[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

[jpgillam]

> <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" wrote:
> > >
> > > I think it's a pity that the movement continues to sabotage 
> > > its own interests by behaving like a blinking cult. 
> 
> Gillam wrote:
>
> Many of us think the TM organization's prime interest is to 
> teach TM, but that's a mistake on our part. The TM organization's 
> prime interest is to maintain the purity of the teaching. That's why 
> it bans cross-pollination with other teachings.
> 
> Behaving like a cult does not interfere with, and may actually 
> promote, the maintenance of the teaching in the form Maharishi 
> transmitted it.
> 
> Archer wrote:
>
> Maharishi used to say "the purity of the teaching depends upon the purity of
> the teachers". If that's true, the teaching was never entirely pure, but it
> might be made more pure if the teachers got the blessings of a saint or two.
>
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