> > What I wonder is whether in Maharishi's Vedic India > > fantasy, anyone would be allowed to *not* meditate > > if they so chose. > > He used to speak, half jokingly, of "meditation police" who would > apprehend people seen on the street with "long faces" and put them > in "meditation asylums."
What makes you think he was joking? That's certainly the way he has run his organizations internally, by demanding adherence to "the way things should be" and punishing "wrongdoers" with shunning or excom- munication. > On an unrelated note, was anyone at the Santa Barbara ATR when he > went on for at least 15 minutes with an analogy that TM was just > like screwing? We were all straining like crazy not to laugh, but > utterly failing. Wasn't there, but the thing that strikes me about the story is the attempt to suppress laughter. What IS it about most spiritual traditions that makes people afraid to laugh at that which they hold sacred? One would think that it'd be the other way around. If the nature of life is joy, one would think one would become *funnier* as one evolved, not more serious. Unc "Seriousness is not a virtue." - G.K. Chesterton 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/
