--- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It amazes me that just because MMY popularizes a technique of > meditation aimed at transcending thought, all too many assume he > knows lots of other stuff too. shame shame shame. > He comes out with hokum, but because it is Maha-hokum, it's okay > cos he's the guy who trademarked a meditation technique. Huh! His > nonsense pronouncements do more harm to the TM cause than anything > that TM-ex could have thought of!
It's sadly true. After having lent credibility to meditation, and established it (at least for a short time) as a household word, and something that the mainstream population could benefit from, he spends his last decades taking its image in the other direction. Go figure. The other thing that, in my opinion, does the most harm to the idea of meditation as a valuable addition to one's life, is the knee-jerk reactions of those TBS who, having made (consciously or subconsciously) the decision that *because* he trademarked meditation everything he says is Maha-cool, feel that they have to defend the pronouncements that even *they* know are Maha-hokum. And so *seriously*. The one thing that turns off more people about religion and spirit- uality than anything else is the inability in people who represent it to laugh at themselves, and the often silly nature of their path and their belief system. In my experience, very few people ever react badly to the person with strong religious or spirit- ual beliefs who is *light* about them, and can poke fun of them when they deserve to be poked fun at. But the person who gets all *serious*, and reacts as if the fun-poking were a personal attack? They parade their insecurity to the world and call it faith. The world is rarely fooled, and calls it what it is. ------------------------ 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/
