--- In [email protected], "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: > > > Unless, you have actually practiced TM, and it doesn't > > > sound like you have, you're just pontificating about > > > something you don't know anything about. I don't know > > > what meditation you practice, but I'd be surprised if > > > you've ever had an effortless meditation a day in your > > > life. > > > > Vaj claims to have been a *TM teacher*. > > Really? Well, Hush my mouth. Has he said anything > specific that leads you to believe it's true?
He's been very evasive about specifics, but I vaguely recall at one point he did say something about which TTC he was on. I had no basis to question what he claimed, not being a teacher myself, but none of the people here who were teachers challenged him on it. I don't recall whether anyone here actually confirmed it. I've seen former teachers demonstrate that they never really got what TM was, but none in my experience has ever gone off the deep end like Vaj has. You could tell they'd at least been *exposed* to what MMY taught, even if they hadn't gotten it straight. If Vaj really ever was a teacher, he's got some kind of extremely weird cognitive deficit. He's frequently dishonest, but I can't believe he'd be so *stupid* as to think anyone who had ever been involved with TM would fall for the sort of thing he was going on about in this post, so I think he really must believe it himself. And I'm not talking about matters of *opinion* here; this stuff isn't a question of disagreement over interpretation, it's just flat-out factually wrong. It's as if someone were to say baseball was a flawed version of cricket. Two different games.
