Hi Offie: On Mar 26, 2005, at 6:12 PM, off_world_beings wrote:
> Well, lets see Vaj. (Unless I am mixing you up with someone else, in > which case I apologize and somebody set me straight). I could not tell you where your confusion comes from! But I have an idea ;-) > You seemed to be > trying with all your might to show that Maharishi is not a true guru, <snip> No, I said MMY was not one for formally accepting sishyas. It now appears this may have been done on his personals assistants, possibly a few others--at having and helping make them Brahmacharis. The movement was at one time a good thing. Now it is much less so. Raja Off World...kinda has a nice ring to it! > > and Guru Dev couldn't pick him out of a crowd if asked to do so. Huh? That's a strange thing to say. > > You hate TM and Maharishi. Huh? > (Unless I am mixing you up with someone else, in which case I > apologize and somebody set me straight). So apologize. > > Therefore , anything that seems like success of TM and Maharishi over > your own movement that you want to start and lord it over everyone... > you are mad about. <shrugs> Nah. I'm really not an angry person. > For example: TM gets taught in some public schools in the US, gets > taught to criminal offenders in Missourri by a judge who does not > meditate, but has seen the postive effects of it, and TM is funded > strongly (10's of millions) in research by the NIH, and has more > ACTUAL EVIDENCE for its efficacy than probably any other technique. > Are you happy that this is the case? I am happy that meditation is being taught. Doesn't matter if it is TM or an other. What DOES matter is if they are charging 2400 USD a pop. That is criminal. Better to use Vipassana like they do in India: cheaper, proven path to enlightenment and more bhang for your buck ;-). And of course it doesn't carry on the now rather weird baggage of the current TMO. -V. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
