--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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...
I think you are right. What is a big surprise for me - is that people in the TMO or TM-Teachers that is protecting MMY and his decisions - they do not teach TM to-day. Some of the TM-Teachers that I know, who is arguing against me as an Independent TM-Teacher - they have not held courses for years -. If they really mean what they are arguing for - they should take the recert. course and try to teach TM at Dollar 2.500 - 3.000. Otherwise they are not reliable. Action means a lot more than words. Ingegerd 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/
