--- In [email protected], "yifuxero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If indeed, MMY displayed a low level of expectation (but a high > level of creative motivation with this and that project), well, I'd > say it points to a relative failure at achieving some preconceived > results (an expectation). > And what was that? Simple: according to the set of oaths that > somebody was kind enough to post, one of the goals was to spread TM > to as many people as possible. > The results are miniscule, the espected and hoped for goal > unattained. Now what remains of the TM Movement is in the hands > of....?
I think we are not near a place yet to evaluate M's impact. Which,I hold possible to be 0. And I have no indentity issues that wish it more. (I do hope its more for humanitarian reasons). The TMO is just begining a new phase. Almost as if the past 40 years were gestation. And only NOW do we see the infant. And I don't like the term TMO. It constrains things to see M's work only in terms of the number of people who take the basic course each weekend. The 60's-mid 70's model of the TMO. Many are still stuck in that era and see nothing else, and will evaluate the "TMO" on that singular metric. Not wise, IMO. I think "Maharish's Transcendental Technologies (MTT) is a better term (tho far from good or complete). Phase I of the MTT just ended. The school years. The kids are wet behind the ears, but have a magnificent smile of naive optimism. Diploma in hand, lets see how the kids do over their career. The next 40 years. Then we can look Phase III (the rest home, wheel chair racing years). Some kids graduate and flop big time. Some quit, some get up and try again. A few, often surprising choices, become the leaders in everything: education, arts, science, business, politics. The education was intense. A crazy wide wide through Maharishis Insane-looking Mind Blowing University. See my prior posts on how Maharishi's crazy binge phase can be viewed). The kids were so busy learning, studying, partying, and being groomed well by their tutors and mentors -- that they look like a wild crazy bunch. The patrons of Animal House walking out the door on graduation day, drunk, dishevelled, broke, clueless. Yet giddy, grinning from ear to ear, making wild claims of future success -- the bravado that only blooming, peaking shakti-bursting youth can bring. NOW, for the first time in the lives,the kids hit the streets, joyful to be free of the torturous routine and constant drills. It will be 5 years or so whether the kid is making ANY headway in his career. Or has been fired 4 times, and is working at WalMart. And five years, will be nothing compared to the 40 year view. Some great careers, some flops. Who Knew! But the kids have a huge crate of seed business plans and short, focuseed venture capital proposals that they have collected from ideas of their professors over the years. All seeds created by great minds just framing and sketching out a business plan. Sketchy and vague. More a book of dreams. And the kids got TALENT. And the kids got a vision. And the kids have some good business plans. Who can say a Silicon Valley might spring from one of them. So, I think its WAY too early to evaluate Maharishi's impact. Which may be Nada, or may in 40 years with all of us gasping, "Who Knew!".
