> > 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. > > 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.
The two concepts do not necessarily go together. You are spouting dogma here. It is the dogma of an organization that has managed to convince its paying supporters that the only "meaningful" way to teach meditation is to try to teach as many people as possible, and to establish an organization to perpetuate this goal for many years into the future. Many organizations are not quite so megalomaniacal in nature. They are content with just teaching those whom they can reach, those who express an interest in what they have to teach. For those organizations, very little in the way of "organization" or overhead is required. No huge budget is required, no incons- cionable fees asked of those who want to learn. The teachers within such organizations can teach for the original reasons that teachers *first* started teaching -- because it's a neat thing to do, because it helps people, and because if you do it right, it gets you really high and aids in your own evolution as it aids in the evolution of others. Clearly, you have different goals in mind when you think of the word "effective" in the context of teaching meditation. The scenario I present above sounds pretty damned effective to me. > 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. Duh. I fucking WORK for a living, like all of the people I teach. Do you really expect the people YOU teach to fucking pay for your life? > Also, to teach on a larger scale the teachers need income, and to > sustain and advertise an effective organization takes income. Dealt with above. This is dogma, not Truth. You are parroting what you have been taught to parrot by an organization that is more interested in being a big and "effective" organization than it is in actually teaching people to meditate. Obviously, if you had been following recent events. > 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? Not very many. But only because I haven't spent very much time in recent years living in third-world countries. Look, dude. I've obviously pushed one of your buttons. Shit happens. But now that it's pushed, let's wiggle the sucker a little, shall we? How many people have YOU taught meditation to, PERIOD. In ANY country? Personally. I can number mine in the thousands, using this "small scale" and "ineffective" method I'm proposing. How 'bout you? We'll wait... Unc 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/
