--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "guyfawkes91" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that some people get het up about TM teachers who go indy and > keep the money for themselves. But look at it another way, if you want > the movement to survive then people have to be able to make a living > as professional teachers. The TMO cannot survive forever on handouts > from the rich, there's a declining supply of them and in a couple of > decades they'll all be dead. So how will the movement make a living then? > > The only option for long term survival is to become like any other > profession, train people well, trust them to run their own businesses > and set their own prices, let them keep the money and expand their > business. The independent sector is doing the movement a favor by > demonstrating that the lack of new initiates in the official channel > isn't due to a lack of coherence, or bad vastu , or bad karma, or lack > of purity. It's due to having a non-viable business model. Teachers in > the independent sector can make a good living and they teach lots of > people. More people learn TM through the indy channel than the > official channel. Charging people a fortune, paying teachers a > pittance and surviving by extracting money from the rich in exchange > for the hope that "next year the phase transition will come", is not a > viable business model in the long term. > > On the other hand people who give money to the movement are doing the > TMO a great disservice by protecting it from economic reality and > encouraging delusional thinking. > > Eventually, when the donation money runs out, whoever is left in the > official TMO will have to let teachers set their own prices, keep the > money and earn a living because that is the only business model that > works.
Did you ever visit a prison and talk to inmates ? You would be baffeld by their convincing arguments about their innosence to the point you could start believing them. Yet objectively they are thieves, or worse. Likewise, someone set into the above mindset will probably never admit to the basics: the dishonesty. It's probably a vaste of time, but let me ask you one question: How much of the 6000.- USD fees that Mr. Knobs charge for his "siddhi course" will go into a trust benefitting humanity ?
