The TM Rajas chose to see it the way they do. They could also chose to do it differently. They could certainly de-link sitting with saints from getting a current dome badge.
> > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And that's the reason you were admitted. They may want to punish you, > > > > >with the programs you already learned, but didn't sign you off as a > > > > >potential customer. > > > > > > > > > > It is true, there is an ambient aspect of fear there over 'place'. As I > > > interview people folks do speak to that bad feeling of fear in the dome > > > as a thing that gets pointed to as a reason by people who don't like > > > meditating in the domes who are not going to the domes. It is a feeling. > > > That there is an ambient fear in the place because of the essential > > > culture of the movement administration for so long. The way people > > > describe it, fear is like a marination in the meditation. That is sad > > > and evidently an old problem as the dome numbers with the community show. > > > > > > > The other evening, I was struck by noticing the hundreds of people there in > > the dome who have dome badges in defiance of the Rajas' anti-saint policy. > > At the Maharaja lecture which ostensibly was a 'badge-only' meeting, there > > are a lot of people who are much worse than I ever have been in seeing > > saints. > > > > The scale of it is laughable ironic except that it is sad. But there are > just a whole lot of rank-and-file saint-seeing folks there meditating in the > domes who like being there who could lose their dome badges in a moment over > a whisper. There are national leaders of most all the saints in the dome > there with current valid dome badges and a lot of saint-seeing meditators > generally are on the Howard Settle Foundation assembly stipend getting paid > to actually be in the dome. At $850 a month, that Settle foundation money is > extremely important income for keeping many old-time old meditators living > here too. Folks may risk their employment or housing otherwise too besides > the dome badge having sat with saints. The TM-taliban Raja use of fear as > punishment is a bad state of affair here that the TM-taliban have had with > people's meditation. It's a bad energy there that is palpable. >
