--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > They got shakti that is alive in a > > > way > > > that by contrast the TMmovement group meditations are only a > > > forlorn > > > disheartened hope over what could have been with their movement. > > > -Doug in FF > > > > So why on earth don't you join them instead of living like a > > spiritual vampire sucking energy from the TM meditators in > > Fairfield ? > > Since you've been so gracious as to provide > us your assessment of the people who live in > Fairfield without having anything to do with > what the TM movement has begun, you've kinda > opened the field to questions about what YOU > have done for the TM movement. > > So here are a few simple questions about YOUR > experience in the TM movement since you started: > > Here are my answers: > > 1. How many people have you initiated (*personally* > taught to practice the TM technique)? > > Over 1000. > > 2. How many introductory lectures have you given? > > Thousands. > > 3. Assuming the answer to #2 is greater than zero, > how many of those lectures did you pay for yourself > (rental of lecture halls, cost of posters, cost of > advertising if any, cost for security if required, > etc.)? > > All, for the first year and a half, although it wasn't out of my > pocket, but out of the operating expenses of the center I was > running single-handedly. > > 4. Approximately how many posters have you put up > yourself? > > Thousands. > > 5. How many times have you dipped into your personal > savings to pay the rent on a TM center to keep it > open and functioning? > > Never. > > 6. How many times have you not *had* any savings to > dip into, and lived on rice and dal (dal if you were > lucky) because keeping the TM center open and being > able to teach TM were more important than eating? > > It never got that bad. I was always a pretty successful teacher. > > 7. How many advanced lectures have you given? > > Even more than I have given intros, and I gave thousands of those. > > 8. How many residence courses have you taught? > > Hundreds. I was a regional lecturer for a year and gave a RC every > weekend, plus many sidhis prep courses. Also a couple of years of > International Staff, years of Purusha, MUM faculty, etc, etc.
Your answers, Rick, I believe. Nabby's...uh...not so much.
