Is Domash in good graces with the Movement? -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 10/9/13, iranitea <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Siddha Tradtions
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 10:05 PM
Domash was a smart guy, I'm sure he has read
the Garland of Letters like anyone else, it was even in the
MERU library in the Sonnenberg as all other of Woodroffe's books. He wrote what
he was allowed to write, and his was a devotional act, I
don't blame him for that. I think he was a very
thoughtful guy, but he knew exactly what he could afford to
do, and what he couldn't.
Coming to think of it, the movement should really install a
team that researches the history of TM, how it developed,
from the earliest sources. Something similar happened to Eckankar
where the present leadership installed a committee to
internally investigate the emergence and source of the
teachings, after it became clear, that it's founder had
plagiarized much material, and it was basically an offshot
of Sant Mat and Radhasoami.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Or
maybe because he didn't have a clue
at all about what tantric traditions are. If he
did he might have
wound up booted from the movement. Gotta keep
"the purity of the
teaching" ya know.
:-D
On 10/09/2013 08:24 AM, Share
Long wrote:
Testing. Richard, maybe Domash
didn't mention
the tantric origins because Westerners can
have such a
narrow view of what tantra is. And that
view does not
include being a recluse!
On
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 10:18 AM,
Richard J.
Williams <punditster@...>
wrote:
It
sounds to me like you
wanted to
believe there was pie up
in the sky,
but you failed to get any.
Maybe you
sucked as a baker or maybe
you just
couldn't sit still to
do a simple
kindergarden yoga pose. Go
figure.
Maybe you just conned
yourself - at
any rate, it must have
been a powerful
experience, since
you're still talking
about it after all these
years. LoL!
On 10/8/2013 12:26 PM,
Michael Jackson
wrote:
you
knew him better than
I did, but
nah, it wasn't
revolutionary,
just another con man
using the
best con man's
trick in the
world, i.e. the best
cons are
ones that contain
some truth, or
have something that
is of some
value.
Let's not forget
that the term
con artist means
confidence
artist.
A
confidence
trick is an
attempt to defraud
a person or
group after first
gaining
their confidence,
in the
classical sense of
trust.
In David
Mamet's
film House
of
Games, the main
con artist gives a
slightly
different
description of the
"confidence
game". He explains
that, in a typical
swindle, the
con man gives the
mark his
own
confidence,
encouraging the mark
to in turn
trust him.
The con
artist thus poses as
a
trustworthy person
seeking
another trustworthy
person.
From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To:
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Tuesday,
October 8, 2013
8:16 AM
Subject:
[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY
and Siddha
Tradtions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Michael
Jackson wrote:
>
> what
about it was
revolutionary?
He
wasn't the
only Indian
guru
> who came
to
the states
and europe to
promote his
schtick you
know.
It
was
revolutionary
in
that he
found a way to
present a
technique
of
meditation
designed for
beginners, as
a
mere
starting point
from
which to
explore more
interesting
techniques, as
the "end
point"
of
meditation
itself. In
other words,
he
presented a
kindergarten
level of
meditation as
"the best,
most effective
form of
meditation
on
the
planet," and
convinced
millions of
people it was
true.
I'd call the
chutzpah of
that pretty
revolutionary,
wouldn't you?
:-)
