--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <no_reply@> wrote: > ing. > > > > The point about the health food store is that Stern is qualified to say TM > > is a good thing, even if he's not too sattvic a guy -- even as anybody even > > in the worst health can sell stuff at a health food store. > > >
> But if that sick person says, "here, I have been eating this health food for > years, look at how it has helped me" and you a sick person, wouldn't a > reasonable person wonder about how healthy that food really is? > > And if all you can grow is a shriveled plant what is the point? > ******** The point is that every human has his/her own environment, internal, karmic, surroundings, so it won't do to say that the expectations for growth are the same for all in whom the seed is planted. If two planters are sidebyside, with one with no weeds, good soil, etc, and the other is deprived of water, bad soil, choked with weeds, etc, then a shrivelly plant from the same seed in the poor planter could say to the thriving plant in the good planter, hey, how come I'm not doing as well as you?, but the answer would surely be obvious. With the exception of a handful of people, the most severely mentally ill people (who could possibly do ten minutes of TM, not in a group), the usual schedule of TM practice produces excellent results in stress reduction and expansion of awareness. I quit smoking (a three pack/day habit) after 10 months of TM without making any effort at all to quit -- the habit lost me, and I never dreamed about smoking, which people who force themselves to quit usually do. This does not mean that TM works the same for everybody, as is obvious with David Lynch, still smoking cigs after 37 yrs of TM. Even a shrivelled plant is better off with TM than without -- and of course the great majority of people practicing TM longterm have significant growth, which is why they continue the practice...Howard Stern knows TM is good for him, even if people question his character, so it's legit for him to say it's a good thing.
