On Jan 23, 2009, at 9:34 AM, uns_tressor wrote:
--- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote:
1. Would TM have been a marketing success if
people knew that ...
"Would", Vaj ?
TM has been a marketing success in the past, because IT WORKS,
Vaj. And the checking system works. A great deal more than can
be said of many systems.
It is not a marketing success right now because the TMO is run
by block heads.
I believe you should be responding to "Boo" since s/he wrote what
you've copied above, not I.
But I will add that the checking procedure and by nature, any canned
checking procedure will not and cannot take into account that things
are always changing: people are and circumstances are changing. So
therefore there will always be some person or circumstance that
canned checking measures will miss. They must continue to evolve
rather than become fixed or canonical. We periodically hear from
people on this list with meditative disorders from their TM practice
that are NOT rectified by the checking procedure despite repeated
attempts. It may also be that the only person who can truly check
your meditation is a meditation master with a profound level of
experience. A memorized flowchart can never rise to the level of that
experience of mastery. One is the mechanic who reads a manual to fix
your car, the other knows your car inside out and just fixes only
what is wrong.
So I'd disagree with your emphatic "IT WORKS" since there has to be a
reason so many quit. Perhaps it only works for a small subset and
there are some who it doesn't work for who just stick around anyways.
