--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First, What is your definition of insanity.??
It would be complex, because insanity is a complex subject, but I'm pretty sure that one aspect of it would include defining as insane people who give themselves the titles of kings and expect others to honor those titles. It would also include those stupid enough *to* honor these self-given titles. :-) > Second, it may not be sane, but you cannot ignore > the teachings completely. That would be like throwing > the baby along with the bathwater. Some babies deserve to be thrown out. I'm with Shemp on this one -- the *only* teaching I think was *ever* of worth in the TM movement was how to do basic TM. I think that's a good start for almost anyone, and thus potentially valuable. I think that everything else, including the siddhis and the diet advice and all the "Vedic" bullshit, is better thrown out. > Third, A little bit of Snake-Oil might be > necessary to grease the wheels of a big movement. Who said a big movement was necessary? That's the question that True Believers never seem to ask them- selves. Many spiritual organizations (for example, Vipassana) have entirely volunteer organizations that teach for free and end up teaching ten to twenty times the number of people worldwide to meditate that the TM organization does. In my opinion, the TMO has turned into an entity primarily concerned with perpetuating itself, not with helping others. The goals of the organization are long forgotten; all that matters now is perpetuating the organization. > Fourth, Take what is good in all the masters and > leave out the irrelevant and the unnecessary. IMO, there have never been any "masters" in history, only people who longed to be subservient and thus picked someone to be subservient to so that they could call them "master." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
