--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of jpgillam > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:59 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > <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. > > 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. > > 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. >
Is that parallel to telling ones spouse "our marriage vows will be stronger if I get the 'blessings' of another lover or two"? There appear to be a couple of approaches: smorgasbord and chef' special. In the first, one creates one own meal, as one thinks best suits them. Another is to trust the chef and say, "Serve me what your think is the best -- you are the chef." In the latter, one doesn't typically say -- but I want to get a side order from the chef down the street. Both the smorgasbord and chef special approaches may be useful -- one for some, the other for others. But asking for side dishes from another chef when asking the chef's special may not instill the highest devotion and attention from the chef to prepare his utmost best for you. He may wait until you are a serious diner.
