--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > > Hi Ann and Buck, > > > > > > I'm baffled by all this. I was totally out of the Dome for 7 years, > > 2003 to 2010. During that time I openly participated in lots of stuff in > > FF, including Waking Down in Mutuality for about 3 years. But I had no > > trouble getting back into the Dome. No interrogation room, etc. Also > > through Amma's org, I've been having planetary pujas done for a while now > > plus use her jyotishis. Movement got too expensive and wanted a person to > > supply family info also. Too much of a hassle. And even when I was a > > grad student on campus, I was open about participating in David Deida > > tantric workshops. Again no interrogation room, no subtle threats, etc. > > > > > > All I can figure is that they let me alone because I'm just a sidha, not a > > gov. But I don't know for sure. Now that I'm back in the Dome, > > sometimes friends on campus aren't as friendly as they were. Sometimes > > that hurts. But I sort of understand. And I have friends in town. TSR > > dontcha know. Town Super Radiance. And jokingly means "taking seminars > > regularly." OTOH, truth in jest, etc.  > > Share in town and in Dome... > > Dear Share, > > My take on all this policing of persons who go outside of the spiritual > resources sanctioned by the TM Movement is pretty simple. Those who devise > and enforce these rules (which originated in Maharishi himself) are going by > their first experience of what TM and Maharishi represented: This is The Way; > there is no other way that compares to the TM-Maharishi way. > > TM is defined as the simplest and most natural technique to take one to the > deepest level of one's very beingthere is no other practice which is defined > mechanically and objectively such as to afford the most efficient way of > transcendingthere are no competitors here. > > The most profound realization one has when one is made a teacher of TM by > Maharishi, is: this is It. There isn't anything else. And if TM cannot do > what it says it doestake one to the level of pure consciousnessthen we are > selling a product which does not do what we say it does. > > Any compromise on this policy of guarding "the purity of the teaching" will > mean the gradual corruption of TM and the dilution of Maharishi's Teaching, > That is one thing that Maharishi was able to do that no other teacher in our > lifetime has been able to do: Make us experience that he was the very best, > the only one, and that what he was giving to us was coming directly from > reality or God or the source of creative intelligence. > > Any flexibility, reasonableness, tolerance here just makes no sense at > allunless the people at the top are giving up their claim to the > exclusiveness of TM as being the most beautiful way to transcend that is > available anywhere. I refer readers (who have done TM) to their first TM > experience. How it happened; what the process was like; how they experienced > the mantra working inside of them. The very miraculous innocenceand > profundityof this experience signifies: No competition will be > allowedbecause what could produce an experience equal to the one you first > had when you started TM? > > I don't say the policy is justified on the basis of TM being what Maharishi > made us believe it was, and what our experiencesat least for > awhileconfirmed, because of course I don't think that TM and Maharishi have > continued to get the grace and support which would indicate that reality and > God still think they are It. But in terms of the truth of one's devotion to > one's Master, and Maharishi brilliant and unchallengeable authority to > persuade us of his preeminent position and status in Creationand his gift to > us in the form of his spiritual technologywhat the TMO is doing in being > careful about vetting persons who meditate in the Dome is not only > reasonable, it is entirely truthful to their conscience, their understanding > of the will of Maharishi, and their own sense of what is the right thing to > do. > > This behaviour on the part of those who wield this authority over meditators > is irreproachable in my estimation. Of course if these persons believed that > there was another path to God, to the Self, to enlightenment, then the > enforcement of these policies would be subject to moral scrutiny. Inside the > context of what they deem as truth and the means of not betraying the wishes > of their Master, they are behaving entirely appropriatelyThere simply is no > argument to be made against them whatsoever. > >
MZ- This is some excellent writing, it captures the TM tru-believer mind. It is an element of TM. You don't live here and you left the movement a long time ago. There are really very few true-believers left though there are still some lot of people interested in meditating in the Domes who meditate in a fear of the guidelines. This hostage hold of true-believer preservationists is a sad influence on the Dome numbers that does not need to be there. The true-believers could also not confuse the Dome admission guidelines for the teaching. Maharishi changed the guidelines all the time as need would be. The TM-Rajas were left with that responsibility too. They have the power and authority to administrate as needs be. The Dome numbers are in a jeopardy to their guidelines. -Buck > > ________________________________ > > From: awoelflebater <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:02 PM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices > > > > > > Â > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Om, waht oh. I may lose my Dome badge, again. I got called in by > > > > > the chief inspector the other day over my religious activities with > > > > > non-TM pundits. If it goes badly they'll take my Dome badge away, > > > > > again. It is still in the balance but it is an interesting thing; > > > > > they have these anti-religious practices paragraphs in the Dome > > > > > meditation admission guidelines that are a snare. The paragraphs are > > > > > part of a business plan to coerce people to use TM movement joytish > > > > > astrology and yagya services more exclusively by using the dome > > > > > admission as a punishment. I had an hour long interview in the Peace > > > > > Palace the other day. Some committee that I'll not see will > > > > > adjudicate my case. "We have something in our files, tell us about > > > > > it." > > > > > > > > > > > > How do the TM inspectors [had a good laugh typing that] find out > > > > you are using non-approved "services?" Is there a supergrass in > > > > FF? And what the hell business do you think it is of theirs? > > > > > > > > Hope you tell them to stuff their stupid dome badge. Really, what > > > > is the point of all this if this is the sort of "positivity" that > > > > TM creates? > > > > > > > > > > Sal, how? The 'course office' works it like East German Secret Police > > > Stasi doing case work. They work it all the time. Search local papers > > > for leads, the internet, make interviews, hear conversations in the Domes > > > or meal hall on campus or around, some people also feel it their duty to > > > tell them things, and then they squeeze people. They make files and > > > network the files. These are TM career people who are very good at what > > > they do. These are apparatchiks who are unquestioningly loyal > > > subordinates. For them it is about enforcing the guidelines. If they > > > had better guidelines they would enforce them too. It is a lot like > > > being confronted with that German officer investigator actor in > > > Inglorious Bastards. > > > http://voices.yahoo.com/inglorious-bastards-using-tarantinos-movie-teaching-5616344.html > > > > > > That's the course office and the system that set it up. Evidently it is > > > the best we have to work with. > > > > > > > Wow Buck, you put up with a lot in order to be able to meditate in the Dome > > and operate within the confines of the TM secret police. I had no idea. If > > any of this had been going on back in 1976-1980 I would have been out of > > there, real fast. I guess what you gain is worth this kind of terrible, > > freedom-squelching monitoring? Is this for real? I haven't been paying > > attention or following any of this at FFL so I am a bit shocked now that I > > actually read one of these posts. I guess you need the collective group > > energy that the dome provides when you do your siddhis? You couldn't just > > sort of hop around in your own home and essentially be flipping these > > Nazi's a bird at the same time as you burn your dome badge? Jeezuz, I would > > love to be in Fairfield just to give these assholes a run for their money. > > I could think of all sorts of fun scenarios because, frankly, I wouldn't > > give a damn and just the opportunity to raise a couple of hackles on these > > guy's backs > > would be worth the price of admission. Good luck with that. But remember, > > certain things are only worth so much boot licking. > > >
