--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > So, you might ask, what WOULD I support > as a suitable use of David Lynch's money, > to achieve his laudable goal of making > meditation more available to students? > > 1. Open the program to *all* popular forms > of meditation, not just TM. If a school > agrees to the program, they cannot be > agreeing to fund only the TM movement.
For the record, the schools ain't funding the TM movement, Lynch is. > 2. The "quiet time" periods are open to > anyone practicing any form of meditation > or contemplation. The only requirement is > that you sit quietly and do not bother the > other students for the allotted period of > time. > > 3. No on-campus instruction. Lynch's fund > can pay for TM instruction, but somewhere > else, not on campus. If his fund doesn't > want to pay for instruction in some other > form of meditation, that is understandable. > Perhaps those other forms of meditation > will develop similar programs to subsidize > teaching their form of meditation, or teach > it for free. Hell, many of them *already* > teach for free. >From the Lynch Foundation Web site (I mentioned this in a post a week or so ago, but apparently Barry missed it): "The David Lynch Foundation provides funding for schools that offer children in grades 6 through 12 the opportunity to learn the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program as part of a whole school, twice-daily, morning and afternoon, Quiet Time session. "Students who do not wish to learn the TM program are offered an alternative Quiet Time activity, which is not funded by the David Lynch Foundation." It's not clear what that alternative activity will be, what the options are, or who decides, but it seems to be along the same general lines as what Barry proposes. I'd fully support all Barry's other provisions as well.
