--- In [email protected], Mark Landau <m@...> wrote:
>
> > Do you still do TM?
> >
> No. I sit and be with whatever arises. Usually, after a while, it all
> subsides and I am in some form of samadhi. Usually, the time being with
> what's arising exceeds the time in samadhi.
>
> >
Mark, that is honest. As I survey around here that is what a lot of old
meditators say and do. They've graduated in a sense back to something else
that is effortless, transcendental and meditating. Most still see themselves
as being 'meditators'. Most here are not doing the TM-siddhis actively.
Lately a lot of people have gone through and rotated off of the current
Invincible America Course noting the time doing the TM-siddhis is too long and
boring. So they've reverted back to simply meditating.
This actually is an un-stated community problem that the TB'ers left
administrating inside have on their hands in making the TM-siddhis their
flag-ship. Most folks around here no longer regularly practice the siddhis as
their meditation. Most just are not vested in the siddhis anymore. In trend
over the years, Meditators here mostly have left the siddhis in storage and
only occassionally get them out. The 'TM-siddhis' movement has mostly gone on
as meditators. Witness that there really are just a very few hundreds doing
the 'siddhis' in the domes now. As a meditating movement this is basically the
size of what the TM-movement is facilitating now as a meditating movement and
what it is down to now.
As I ask around most are not doing the siddhis as their meditation practice but
say when asked that they would go up there for a group meditation if it were
open. That, yes they are still meditators and practice. The movement as it is
has long since abdicated the simple meditator promoting the siddhis the TM
flag-ship three and almost four decades ago. The conservatives in charge now
evidently are determined to go down with their ship rather than accomodate a
course. To them it is all about the siddhis. To meditators in the larger
community it evidently is about something else.
