TurquoiseB wrote: >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" >> >> ><curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > >>>>"Remember: this is the guy who told Andrew Skolnick that TM >>>>teacherwere taught to lie" >>>> >>>> >>>Was it your experience of TTC that leads you to challenge that >>>statement about what teachers were taught? >>> >>> >>Other teachers of TM want to weigh in? Were you taught to lie? >> >> > >Absolutely. About the contents of the puja, about >whether or not people were asked to kneel during >it, about the number of mantras and how they were >selected, and about certain "hot button" subjects >that were likely to come up in lectures or in >interviews. For the latter, we were taught "pat >answers" to use in each situation, answers that >in many cases we knew not to be true. We were also >taught things to say about other forms of meditation >(that most of us had never practiced) that were 1) >negative and 2) not true. > >But Sparaig won't believe this, and he similarly >won't believe any other TM teacher who chimes in >and answers his question with a hearty "Yes." >He's interested in perpetuating his fantasies that >what he was told was Truth, not in realizing that >many of the things he was told were calculated >lies. > The biggest lie I can think of was the notion that the TM technique comes from the Shankaracharya which they claim it does not. I think that annoys most TM teachers I know. Whether MMY made it up or found it in an ancient text he owes it to his teachers the real source of the techniques. For those who live a "spiritually sheltered" life and are not aware there are many methods of teaching the public yogic meditation among them methods based on astrology, ayurveda, favorite deity and Hindu stages of life.
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