I wish I could write in Norwegian - because I am not that good to explain what I mean in English. As TM-Teachers we should meet people at the same level as they are. Some have more knowledge than me - some have different knowledge, but we should meet them with respect and don't push our opinions (or MMY opinions) on them. What we can offer is a simple, effortless technique. After the basic course (4 days) I have following-up courses. Some students like to hear about Veda - other don't. Some like to see tapes with MMY - other don't. (More and more people don't) Some like to only come and meditate and leave. Some need to talk. It must be room for some flexibility. The main thing is that they continue to meditate. So my following-up is different from people to people depending on what they need and if I am able to supply what they need. I teach the TM-Technique in the same way as MMY told me, 25 years ago (so don't come with "loose the purity of teaching- stuff").
I did send a message about Acem in Norway. I do not agree with their teaching, but I think we could learn something from them. They have great lectures about things happening in Society and what people is interesting in, in their own lifes. It is possible to combine the two things - the teaching and other things people are interesting in, maybe we would not be so boring. Ingegerd --- In [email protected], "tmforlife108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure there are TM teachers and meditators out there who would > like to find a solution to the new movement and it's approach. I > think TM is going to loose credibility if we don't try to keep it > alive somehow. > > I remember a course in 1970, Maharishi responding to a large group > of us, mostly college age. The subject was "change the world - make > it better". Maharishi appeared to have his hands full and I know > some would have preferred a radical solution to the problems in the > world. Everyone could agree on one thing - things must change. > Someone asked, "Why not just invent a new way?" and Maharishi > replied with a seemingly oversimplified solution: "Don't change the > traditions, just fix the old ones". Given the time and the theme of > that course, fix the traditions did not mean become a raja and have > people bow down to you. Did anyone ever suspect it would come to > this? > > I'm not enlightened, I'm not an expert in vedic literature and my > goals in writing are simple. Many of us came on board after learning > TM. Some became teachers, moved to Fairfield, changed directions. > Some are obviously bitter, want to attack what resembles the TMO > logic, and for me, that's fine. Go ahead, get it out of your > system. But I think that eventually FFL can provide us with a > playing field for creating something concrete. > > Daniel Jeffers 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/
