--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" > <mainstream20016@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > All directly involved are tip-toeing through the elephants to > avoid stirring up third-party opposition to public recognition of TM's > good effect in this public school.... but that doesn't address the > future prospects of teaching TM broadly, which will require a secular > organization teaching TM as a secular technique, which will happen > soon, as a response of the need of the time. > > > > > How are they going to teach and maintain TM as a "secular > technique" while using the Puja to initiate? Surely they're not going > to do away with the Puja, eh? > > > > from #151229: 'Like a surgeon who scrubs for surgery outside of the > surgical suite, away from the patient, the TM teacher can prepare for > teaching TM by performing the puja privately, in an adjoining room.' > > > Two questions: > > 1) Do the would-be meditaters bring fruit flowers and handkerchief? > [Please explain] > > 2) Is all of this by *direct* instructions from Maharishi? > from #151890:
Maharishi has been flexible with aspects of the puja, including not requirng the student to observe the teacher's performance of the puja. Maharishi might allow the teacher to provide the fruit, flowers, and handkerchief, to further reassure the student. The TM technique's current irrelevance is due to the now overtly-religious TMO. The SIMS period through 1975 saw TM taught as a secular technique, and incredibly wide acceptance. Since the Sidhi program instruction in 1976, the TMO has not been able to present itself as a non-religious organization. Not coincidently TM has since become irrelevant. A return to secular TM instruction made available from a new, separate secular teaching organization will allow its wide acceptance - the current affiliation with the overtly-religious TMO will not.
