--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of mainstream20016 > Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:59 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: more meditating school info with my apology to > chris > > > > Regarding the reassurance that SatYug is nigh at hand, through the > inevitability and > necessity of India's role to bring all good to all of us - Great ! Wonderful > ! I look forward to > cathcing the rays of a global bath of beneficent light. Yet, as a > practicality, it would be a > good thing, and wise, to have a direct hand in raising one's consciousness. > So I advocate > for wide-spread individual TM practice in the West, yet that cannot happen > if TMO remains > an overtly religious organization. TM has, and can again, be taught honestly > and > effectively as a secular technique. As the last thirty-two years has shown, > unless TM is > taught as a secular technique, it's impact will be nill, notwithstanding the > coming glories > of SatYug. >
> Seems to me Pandora's box has been opened. Even if the TMO were to try to > scale back and present TM as a secular technique, critics would be able to > present all sorts of evidence that for decades, it has been associated with > Hindu and various wacky things. The TMO would be accused of trying to hide > all that for marketing purposes. > > ********** You are, naturally, missing the point of what's happening completely. It does not matter how people in the West perceive TM -- it's enough that a few people, aided by the presence of pundits, are doing TM in the West -- it's only necessary that a few candles have been lit throughout the world, and that has been accomplished. India alone can be responsible for the transition to a Vedic culture, Sat Yuga, and in India semantics about TM as religion are meaningless.
