--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I was in school, public school, I remember they read a passage > from the Bible, sometimes in the morning; I rather enjoyed that > moment of spiritual reflection, even as a child. > I suppose, they would have found TM to be a religion, as has been > said, no matter how it had been presented. > Now, our culture, has become so anti-spiritual anything, that the > separation of church and state issue, has in a way undermined the > right to even have a moment of silence, in school, which is > currently being debated. > The one thing that is missing in the schools, in our culture, and in > our world, is Silence. > If you call a process of gaining silence a religion, and ban it from > school or any other place, what you end up with is chaos. > Then chaos becomes the preferred religion, of our time.
> Yeah, I remember going on a TM course to Washington DC and due to a group of TMers earlier meditating for 20 minutes in the public gallery of the Senate, they passed a law that you couldn't close your eyes for an extended period in the gallery while the Senate was in session. So when us meditators filed in wearing our ill fitting suits, we were told specifically that we would have to leave if we closed our eyes. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
