--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sparaig is asking what specifically is so offensive about, > after 20 years or more, there being a recertification course?
What is offensive is charging more for the "course" (which as we all know involved no new training) than the teachers paid for their original training, and declaring them persona non grata in the organization if they don't pony up the cash. What is offensive is the *real* reason for the "recertification" program, which is that the TMO has realized it doesn't have any binding legal agree- ments with any of its teachers, and wanted to impose them retroactively. And, of course, make the teachers pay for the organization's oversight. > Or about Vastu pronouncements, etc? Vastu as a theory is no more offensive than any other theory about living in harmony with the earth like feng shui or Tibetan Sa-che or Western geomancy. What is offensive is declaring that the world *has* to be rebuilt according to one man's interpretation of this theory to sustain world peace. What is offensive is the assumption that people would actually *go along with* rejecting their own cultural traditions and tearing down all their historical build- ings, just because some senile old fart says they should. What is offensive is that TB TMers can actually listen to these ideas and not see (as can almost *anyone* who lives in the real world) that the person proposing them is completely out of touch with reality. What is offensive is that the TBs do this because they wish to believe that the gentleman who is proposing these insane, unworkable ideas once taught them some- thing they found valuable, and they now feel that they should believe everything he says about anything, just because he says it. What is offensive is the idea that living in "perfect environments" leads to perfect behavior, coming from the organization that has seen one murder and many suicides in such perfect environments. And what is *most* offensive is the basic theory behind what Maharishi is proposing, which is that the relative world has the ability to prevent inner peace and enlight- enment, and that the only real way to realize these goals is to reshape the relative world. It's as far from the eternal message of enlightenment as it is possible to get. ------------------------ 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/
