If people are not rounding, it is because it is not blissful any more. If it is not blissful, it is because the Purity of the Teaching has been lost.
The Invincible America program has made additions to "improve" it, but have taken away from the purity of the teaching, which lies in its simplicity. In the good old days, when people paid to round, it was because it was simple. One round, then the ding of a bell, then a second deeper round. Now it is "improved" by asking for a meaningless show of hands for Number 1 experiences. Then an international conference call, listening to mostly unenlightened mood making. Most people love a Puja on special occasions. But every day? It loses its specialness. Keep in mind that it was not Maharishi who added the Puja. It was added after his passing away, then became institutionalized. Then there is the stupid Heaven Is Descending jingle, which flies in the face of the organization's claim that TM is not a religion. The program drags out so long, people have to eat between rounds. So during their second round, their bodies are digesting - or sleeping. Better to simplify the program back to the basics. Better to get the rounding done by 11:00 so the participants can stabilize. Better yet then can do some job, or start a business, to become financially self sufficient. Currently many of them are cultivating a life style of being dependent, sleeping until noon, and will be unable to work if the grant ends. --- In [email protected], "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: > > > > > > > --- 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. >
