Well, here's the thing... I was raised in the Unitarian-Universalist *Church*.
There's no moral or ethical guidelines given to people that they are required to follow in order to be a member, but one picks up, by osmosis, a certain attitude about things like "The Golden Rule." If all else fails, one would hopefully learn some moral behavior from friends and family, and in fact, Father Mejia's orphanages and halfway houses are a perfect example of how TM can be added to a specific existing program that provides formal training for people to behave better. Likewise, one gets a very strong sense of moral values as part of military training, especially in officer's candidate school, and the addition of TM there will, by theory, produce some enlightened people as well. So it is not necessary to have a well-defined religion to provide the needed moral structure on the road to enlightenment. Other institutions, whether familial or rehabilitative or military, can provide the same thing. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > I don't know that MMY said that practicing TM was practicing all eight > > limbs. The analogy he made was that you can move a stool and all of its > > legs by moving any leg or something along those lines. > > > > He also asserted that normal daily activity, to some extent, fulfilled the > > activity-aspects of Yoga, while the moral precepts and guidelines of each > > society were sufficient to provide what was needed from the > > behavioral/ethical aspects of Yoga, leaving only samadhi, that is, TM, as > > the missing ingredient to become enlightened. > > > > L > > In short, he outsourced Patanjali's first two limbs to one's own Religion > (assuming you HAD a Religion). If you didn't have a Religion I guess you're > out of luck. That's why with TM you only get *half a loaf*. ;-) >
