But it was fun wasn't it? At least until some of the folks coming back
from the AoE courses thought they were "king shit" and needed to "run
things." They didn't bother me though because I was allegedly "in CC"
nor anyone else who was allegedly so. ;-)
On 09/12/2014 08:36 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
Maharishi never gave a damn about us ever understanding "a philosophy
made necessary" if the concept "transcendental" is the basis of it.
Except for learning puja and checking notes, we never had "general
philosophy 101" classes, never had exams, never had sub-leaders who
could lead a discussion about philosophy, never were encouraged to
study the Gita or other scriptures, never had any "must memorize"
commands, etc. We were forbidden to read any other spiritual books.
Yeah, Maharishi taught us by answering the mike-questions, but that
was always informal and there was no "lesson plan" for the "students."
In short we were put out into the public wilds completely unable to
defend TM with concepts and logic.....except such as we were able to
individually pony up when the moment came that someone asked a deeper
question.
We were JOKES, and we didn't know it, but because most of our
audiences were as un-scholarly as we were, so we could bullshit to the
max. Any PhD in philosophy candidate could have us tied up in knots
and sweating buckets.
Oh, we were told we were Totakacharya types.....the nice folks who
were stupid but who would do great works none-the-less. We swallowed
that shit like it was caviar.
So don't go pushing Chapter 7 on me -- it's just window dressing in a
billion dollar scam.
I read the first six chapters and wore out three copies of the book
underlining and adding comments and questions in the margins. After I
got into Advaita, I read MMY's Gita one last time and I WAS APPALLED
at the lack of consistency of how key concepts were used.
Go ahead, try to find out what Maharishi would say are the defining
DIFFERENCES "being, consciousness, isness, amness, transcendent,
awareness, witness, soul, etc." I'll wait. No one....I repeat, NO
ONE came off a TM teachers' training course being able to define these
words without paradox or treating most of them as if they were
synonyms of each other. We were hustlers with shiny shoes, a $200
suit and a $200 car.
We were fucking chumps.
