--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On May 28, 2008, at 9:49 AM, sandiego108 wrote:
>
> > Oh come on-- so lame. Not even especially creative. TM is an
> > excellent and effective technique for gaining a permanent state
of
> > enlightenment. Just the opposite of what you have written here;
use
> > it or lose it.
>
> The bizarre thing is many other meditation techniques don't have
side
> effects like is seen in TM. And of course the org that is is
selling
> the technique has suppressed any such information on negative
side
> effects, although psychiatrists and independent researchers have
been
> familiar with them for a long time.
>
> >
> > Are you the poster boy for your technique, Vaj, because that's
> > scary.
>
> I don't believe in a cookie cutter approach to meditation
instruction
> (one meditation technique for all people). I believe we need to
> respect people as individuals and appreciate their individual
> differences.
>
> > Why, if you are enjoying so much success and have grown so
> > wise, do you hang out on a web site and endlessly decry the
merits
> > of a technique that you don't even do, from a group you never
> > belonged to? Its a little creepy dude, like a guy in a raincoat
> > hanging out near an elementary school...
>
> It's important if a practice harms others that this be pointed
out
> and made known, it's just the compassionate thing to do. After
all
> freedom is what meditation is often about, not psychosis. I find
it
> truly bizarre that that would seem like "a guy in a raincoat
hanging
> out near an elementary school" to you.
>
> There is a database being compiled on the negative side effects
of
> TM, but I suspect in a time of declining interest, it will be
less
> than comprehensive and a lot harder to collate than it could have
> been in the hay-day of TM interest in the 80's had the TMO
actually
> taken an interest in these side effects and the suffering it
causes.
>
I think your emphasis on the few cases in which a person doing TM
had problems is unbalanced. And yeah, you setting yourself up as
sheriff in TM Dodge City is bizarre and kinda creepy. Nothing
compassionate about it at all.
