When I first signed the agreement form, it as just short before we received the TM initiator initiation, I thought that it was a mere formality, and I thought that the term purity of the teaching related to teaching the 7 steps of TM. 7 steps. Intro lecture, prep lecture, personal interview, initiation - the puja, the mantras, the 'steps', and the 3 days checking. That's it, I thought.
But now I learn, that signing this agreement form, was like signing a blanco checque, that anything could be added to this term, be it Ayurveda, Vastu, Maharishi Jyotish, Maharishi natural products etc etc. And now I learn, that the purity of the teaching relates to all of them, and we don't even know what is yet to come, which will fall under this term. The purity of the teaching is really a whore. Knowing all this development, we should have at least have one week of lectures just about the agreement form. I think there was one lecture by Maharishi, playing it more or less down. At the times I signed it first, there were no domes yet, no group flying, no Ayurveda, no Vastu or Maharishi Jyotish, no Maharishi honey etc. What I find unforgivable, is the fact, that the group program, which is really the holy grail of the movement is being instrumentalized as a means of punishment, of sanctioning, and if Buck is correct, to impart the rules they make, would allow them to spy on people and behave in a manner which only the secret service does. And even more so, do this out of a basically economic reason, as several posters here agree. Where is the purity of the teaching in all this? At the moment I learned about the purity of the teaching, it was about 'capture the fort, and all else will be given to you'. No need for special services and add on techniques. Now you are jeopardizing the purity of the teaching if you buy the wrong house, or the wrong honey or the get the wrong horoscope. And of course, you didn't know anything about this, hen you signed this paper at your TTC. As long as people feel this commitment to go to the domes, or as long as they want to participate in the common group program, so long the movement will have you in their hands, they will be able to control people. I cannot feel such a commitment on the basis of the experiences I had when starting to meditate. While I see the value of TM, especially for the beginner, I don't see it's exclusiveness. Transcendence to me predates any experience, I had anticipations of transcendence before TM, I had experiences before too. And, of course, I had many experiences after. So I cannot fee obliged my whole life to one particular experience, and let it enclose my life in one particular pattern. The same is true for you Robin, quite obviously and even much more dramatically, but I cannot achieve the kind of compartmentalization you are making with respect to all the different Robins in your personal history. To me it seems there is a Robin1, a Robin2, a Robin3 and a Robin4 up until 5 maybe, all of them are fairly intact, lets call Robin1 the Robin who as a TB teacher and just newly enlightened, Robin2 the Robin of the seminars at FF and whatever happened there, the Robin3 the one who read Aquinas and became converted to Catholicism, and Robin4 is the post modern, post catholic Robin. There is also Robin0, the one who experimented with LSD (which I never took). Robin4 tells us that the whole TM trip as a deception, and illusion, and side by side in the same post Robin1 tells that the initiation into TM is the most marvelous experience, to which we should always be committed and faithful. Robin4 tells Emily it is better to never start TM, and Robin1 tells Vaj, that he doesn't know anything because he never transcended and urges him to start learning TM. It is as if all these personas, are overlay-ed upon each other, but there is no final resolution. Maybe it is your purpose to work on your own history, to reach a sense of resolution between these levels, but to me it seems you resort to some sort of mysticism instead. For Buck I am glad that he is there, in whatever situation he is in, and makes these things known to us creating transparency. To me he is a very authentic and honest person. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@...> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > ________________________________ > > 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. > > >
