--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" jyouells@ 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. >
Maharishi claims that the TM program is his unique revival of 'Knowlege' in this time by the grace of Guru Dev, not just a good program structured from remaining practices. I do understand that it's ultimately 'borrowed'. Come on, you know the patter! JohnY
