--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" jyouells@ > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > There is so much hidden in the TMO, that unless we know > > > > > from our own experience, we're just guessing... > > > > > > > > Or unless of course you knew and talked with one of M's closest > > > > confidants who helped set up SCI and the birth of the sidhi > > > > program... :-) > > > > > > > > Having done that you'd know that he knew none of this stuff, but > > > > had to seek it out with couriers dispatched to various locales. > > > > You'd also know that much lecture material was also not his own. > > > > And I believe we have one a brother student of SBS who said flat > > > > out, M knew nothing about yoga: he was not a yogi! > > > > > > > > I know this is hard for some people, but it is the plain > > > > truth of the matter. > > > > > > Nothing would surprise me anymore.... > > > > I don't understand why you would *ever* have been > > (presumably unpleasantly) surprised to learn that MMY > > sought out input from others. If you were creating a > > curriculum to teach something you thought was of great > > importance, wouldn't *you* want to explore every > > possible angle with others who might have something to > > contribute, and incorporate into your curriculum > > whatever of their thinking you found valuable? > > > > Seems to me assuming you have nothing to learn from > > anybody would, at the very least, not be good > > pedagogy. > > > It would be difficult to be surprised about Maharishi seeking out input > from others, because he never mentioned it. Honest disclosure, now > THAT would be a surprise.... I always figured that MMY borrowed stuff > from other teachers, that doesn't bother me, but if he 'borrowed' it > ALL, I'd like to know.
How could he NOT "borrow" it? The Yoga Sutras have been around for between 1200 and 2500 years, depending on who you believe and MMY says that TM is the simplest form of dyhan ala Patanjali.
