well once about the movement Maharishi said "It takes a thorn to remove a thorn" but I think the thorn being removed was Kali Yuga so if Kali Yuga is coming to an end then there should be no longer a need or excuse for the movement to be thorn-like any longer!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jwtrowbridge" <johnwtrowbridge@> wrote: > [...] > > For lack of a better expression, I would like to suggest that their needs > > to be a separation of church and state. The church is the purity of the > > knowledge, and the state is how TM is administrated, the organization. The > > organization should consider some of the principles I have suggested. There > > is nothing wrong with conflict. Conflict is just an opportunity to solve a > > problem. It is how something maladaptive, and disorganized becomes > > beautiful. > > > > > At one point in time MMY directed that all TM centers would be run by the > "sidhi parliament," comprised of all the local meditators, while the teaching > duties would remain with the TM teachers. > > The TM teachers, seeing their priesthood threatened, ignored him and insisted > in running "their" centers, their way. > > Another time, MMY heard that TM teachers were making the puja a standard > ritual in their own lives in all circumstances and released a video to be > shown to all meditators everywhere, where he discussed why he had ensured > that TM wasn't a religion. It was shown once, as far as I know, and then > virtually every center in the world appears to have conveniently lost track > of it, with many gung-ho TMers denying that it ever existed. > > > L > > > L >
