--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > Lynch reportedly told MMy that he wasn't getting many donors > > for his foundation because the price was too high, so MMY told > > him to talk to Hagelin about setting a lower price. > > > > The upshot is that schools, or large segments thereof, can > > learn TM for $600 a head. > > While I still believe that this price is 10X too > high, given the current "market price" for meditation > instruction in America, I praise David Lynch both for > his dedication and for his efforts to make TM more > affordable. My conversations a few years ago with > the woman who was his long-time personal secretary > convinced me that he is a good-hearted person, and > I have no doubts that he is trying everything he can > to help make something he feels is valuable more > available to young people. It's just a shame that he > has to fight the organization that provides that > "something valuable" to achieve his laudable good > intentions. >
Keep in mind that Lynch is a TBer like myself who believes that TM is unique or durned close to it. While I wouldn't be surprised if various non-TM teachers offer TM-like techniques to their students. the quality control just isn't there. Radically different techniques go by the same name. What is bothersome, even telling, is that many of you former TBers are confident that its all the same, despite the obvious physiological evidence to the contrary (not to mention common sense understanding of how TM differs from most run-of-the-mill mantra meditation that *I* have heard of). This criticism is directed at many former TM teachers on this group, who appear to have missed things the entire time they were parroting MMY's words. Which suggests that MMY's words aren't as good as they could be, I guess. L.
