> > Not really any teaching going on? > > > -----Who cares? Who could care? If someone cared, what would they > do about it?
Exactly. There is no instruction going on because, on some level, the TM organization or Maharishi or both *want* there to be no instruction going on. On one level, setting the price for TM instruction to $3000 shows an almost pathological level of disconnection from reality, both in terms of what instruction in meditation costs in the "market," and in terms of its perceived value for "consumers." The price is set at this level for *exactly* the reason sparaig mentioned -- the price setters are used to "preaching to the converted." They haven't actually *spoken* to anyone who wasn't "converted" in decades, so how do t hey know how much charge someone who doesn't *already* assume that "TM is worth any price" the way they do? On another level, the level at which everybody always knows on an intuitive level what they claim not to know on a conscious level, the price setters know *exactly* what they are doing. For whatever reasons, Maharishi *wants* TM instruction to come to a halt. So they set a price that basically *guarantees* that this will happen, and introduce other factors (funny-looking costumes, segregation of sexes, etc.) to further put off those who might otherwise be interested in learning TM. So I think the issue of what one could do about the situation if they cared is fairly moot. Those who care *cannot* do anything about the situation *within* the TMO, because it obviously does NOT care about new people learning to meditate. The only thing that people who DO care about actually spreading the dharma can do is to teach outside the organization and try to do a better job with their pricing and their followthrough than the TMO does. The larger question might be *WHY* does the TMO and Maharishi not care about teaching TM any more? Some True Believers think that the whole focus has shifted to raising money for the Grand Gestures. Me, I don't buy that, because almost none of the Grand Gestures have ever materialized, and I don't expect any of them TO ever mater- ialize. What I think is going on is that an old, old man is getting older by the day and is trying to set up a series of "fall guys" for not having accomplished what he very publicly set out to accomplish -- the spiritual regeneration of the world. Death is getting closer every day and the world, by any objective criteria, is actually much, much further away from spiritual regeneration than it was when he started his crusade. Maharishi is reluctant for that to be his legacy, so he's setting up people to BLAME for this being the case. It's the fault of governments, for not giving him enough money for his Grand Gestures. It's the fault of the public, for being so lowvibe and unevolved that paying $3000 for what they can get down the street for $50 doesn't strike them as a good idea. Above all, it's the fault of the thousands of TM teachers who, if they had just been doing *their* job, would have brought about this promised spiritual regeneration decades ago. The price being charged for TM has nothing whatsoever to do with what TM is "worth." IMO, it is the latest mech- anism by which an old man refuses to take responsibility for his own karma. Just my opinion... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
