--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: > > > > It's funny, each given their own experience, could > > > ultra-Buddhists and ultra-TM'ers get together to > > > issue a joint-statement that meditation is good and > > > that meditation not only ought to be practiced but > > > that it should be practiced, for instance as public > > > policy in all public schools for good reasons of > > > neurophysiology. > > > > Without a fundamental fight over which meditation > > would be better? It's been going on for 50 years > > ever since Maharishi came to the West marketing > > meditation in the meditation market-place. > > It seems that both camps actively work at denying each > the other's experience. Like a spiritual warfare is > going on over the hearts and minds of the meditation market.
What an incredible crock of horseshit. I can honestly state that I have never encountered an organization that claims that its technique of meditation is "best" OTHER THAN THE TMO. The most I've ever heard any other organization say is that some of its techniques are possibly better for people of a certain disposition, whereas other techniques they teach may be better for those of a different disposition. The question of "best" does not come up, almost by definition, because all of these organizations teach multiple techniques. There was never any impetus for them to declare one of them "best," as there was for the TMO, for the simple reason that it had nothing else to sell. Most of the organizations I've dealt with that teach meditation would be affronted even by the notion that there is such a thing as the "meditation marketplace." That a phrase that only a TMer or someone from some other group *trying to make money by teaching meditation* would think up. The organi- zations I'm talking about all teach for free, so such a low-vibe concern as "marketing" what they teach or selling it in a "marketplace" would never even occur to them. As for the idea of making meditation mandatory in schools, that is also something that would never occur to these other organizations. If someone brought the idea up, they would first laugh, think- ing that you were joking, and then be affronted, because the idea of imposing meditation on anyone or mandating its practice would be anathema to them. They wouldn't understand how anyone could even think such a low-vibe idea up. It takes a Maharishi, or one of his followers, to think of something like that. But that's probably because they think in terms of a "meditation marketplace." To them it doesn't matter whether individuals pay for it or a school system pays for it, just so long as they get paid.
