--- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote:
>
>
> On May 7, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Richard M wrote:
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> > That sounds marvelous of course. Jolly good luck to them.
> >
> > But seriously, who would want to run such courses in today's
> > climate of
> > fear? With everyone suing at the drop of a hat and a "blame culture"
> > that serves to turn everyone into "victims"?
> >
> > Look at Mr "I learnt to meditate but all I got from TM is a twitch"
> > Knapp (cf. your post earlier). Do you seriously think that your
> > estimable Alan can guarantee NO side-effects to Michelle and her
> > students, given your own startling list of what they might expect
> > gleaned from your Vajra Esssence text? Do the course leaders have a
> > good legal team?
> >
> > For my part I think the presumption should be "buyer beware!". If I
> > read a story about some Michelle who came away with a twitch after
> > attending a retreat that involved hours and hours of meditation, I
> > would not immediately sympathasise with her as "victim". For me it
> > would make no difference whether the story involved Buddhist,
> > Christian, TM or whatever meditation either.
>
> Honestly, the only place I've seen people come away with unresolvable
> twitching and other Tourrette's like symptoms is with TM. In
> Muktananda's people, many people would get movements, but they would
> resolve, typically through spontaneous mudras or asanas.
>
hey for my money a little twitching is a small price to pay vs. setting oneself
on fire...but hey, i guess in some people's eyes, buddhist = always good and TM
= always bad...
