--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It doesn't exist. > > > > The age-old traditions in East and West, always expected the > > > > student, novice, devotee, to devote his/her self to the cause, > > > > usually for years, before any SIGNIFICANT teaching was given > > > > to them. It is a way to assess the worthiness of a student. > > > > > > I must disagree. > > > > > > There have been, and are today, many traditions > > > that teach meditation for free, with nothing either > > > asked of or expected from the student. > > > > There are none. > > With all due respect, you are mistaken. Sadly mistaken. > You need to get out more, spiritually. > > > Money for sustainance for teacher and > > ashram/church/centre, comes from somewhere. > > That is true. In the traditions I am speaking about, > the money to pay for the teaching comes from the > teachers themselves, supplemented occasionally by > donations (*real* donations...never asked for...never > solicited) from students who felt they got something > valuable from the teaching and wish to help someone > else find the same thing. It's the "pay it forward" > paradigm, not the "pay the teacher" or "pay the > organization" paradigm. > > > More importantly, notice I used the word SIGNIFICANT. Please name > > any significant teaching where some sacrifice is not expected. >
> > I was *very much* engaged in the lifelong mission of > teaching that Maharishi is engaged in. I still am. > I choose to pay for it myself. So do many of the > monks I studied with. We teach because we consider > what we have managed to learn along the Way valuable > enough that we feel the need to make it available to > those who might be interested. And we teach for free, > paying for everything ourselves, because we are more > than a little weird, and that's our weird idea of fun. > > Unc>>> Yes it is a hobby for you. It is a full-time, lifetime occupation for Maharishi and his cloned teachers. For without that cloning the teaching is small scale and ineffective in the long-term. In a sense, it is selfish, for it benifits only yourself and maybe a couple of others. Nothing is for free. Where do you get the money to live day to day. Also, to teach on a larger scale the teachers need income, and to sustain and advertise an effective organization takes income. Also, Maharishi has taught TM to 100 of thousands (maybe closer ot millions) completely for FREE in third world countries(and in some cases TM-Sidhis, and TTC). I personally know some of them. He was able to do this massive and unparalled - in the history of the human race - underataking, by charging the developed countries. So how many have you taught for free in third world countries? 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/
