TM may or may not be an effortless practice (re recent post on the subject) but no question MMY's current "effect" is a demonstration of "effortless peace". That is the only thing that makes it really special - it seems unique in emphasizing the SOCIAL effect of the practice.
It may be that it is easier than we think to divert our attention to positive "trends", much like magicians can do with an audience. Personally I hope this is NOT an illusion, although by contrast my faith in MMY as an enlightened guru is now at rock bottom - I wouldn't trust him selling me a second hand car, would you? Maybe Nature has acted in it's typical "law of least action" fashion and selected MMY for this task, so that he might succeed IN SPITE OF HIMSELF! He was blessed with a special guru, a great insight about the mechanics of meditation and enlightenment and a charismatic personality, but otherwise has INCREDIBLE personal limitations - no aesthetic sensibility whatsoever, elementary school level understanding of world politics, no cultural appreciation of the ADVANCES of Western civilization (democracy, human rights etc) etc. I personally feel now that individual enlightenment in this lifetime is beyond me, and that it is rather improbable that genuine seekers in other traditions are wasting their time, as assumed within the Movement. Moreover I am even more convinced, thanks to FFL, that MMY's Movement is now imploding catastrophically, as it seems like dead wood infested with vermin. But if it manages to create world peace in spite of it all - what the hell! That WOULD be a success!! 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/
