Many words, no wisdom.
--- In [email protected], Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote:
>
> I have looked at it quite a bit - I was merely pointing out that as far as I
> can see, they only use TM as their modality - and if you believe that the Big
> M was a great guy and all he did was and is good I can't help you - I know
> the Lynch Foundation being a front for the TMO is gonna say they do grand
> things, but from experience I am not so convinced that all their work is
> good, nor that TM is as fine as they claim, and I am especially leery of
> using TM as a remedy for PTSD - I know a bit about both TM and PTSD and given
> the unstressing phenomenon that we all know exists I believe there are other
> meditations that better fit the bill for people with combat related stress.
>
> Of course you won't agree, but I believe it is neither childish nor cynical
> to expect results when results are promised. It is not cynical to be honest
> about a
> group who has for years left a trail of unfulfilled promises with plenty of
> bad behavior on top. I know that you and others like you like TM but to
> believe all that is claimed for it is living a nice but child-like fantasy.
>
> We sit and use our TM mantra, we have experiences of clear transcending,
> later we begin to have bliss, both in and out of meditation and experiences
> of what have been described as CC, GC and UC. Thus we feel that it is all
> Maha said it was and it will bring enlightenment. And we give a free pass to
> M and his top people when their behavior belies the experiences we have
> within - as in how can someone who has been meditating so long and
> administers the Movement do something like that? We make innumerable excuses
> for them.
>
> I once believed that Maha was enlightened and everything that the Movement
> did was for the long range goal of global enlightenment and world peace. And
> much of what he and the TMO did made no sense under
> that belief. When I came to realize that Maharishi was not enlightened, he
> had great charisma, great energy, lots of knowledge and in my opinion was a
> genius in some respects, yet he was not enlightened and he was allowing his
> ego to make what could have been a world changing movement into an ego based
> structure to cater to his desire to be deified, flow money in large amounts
> to him and get him all the ladies he wanted (yep, I believe that he did have
> sex with lots of women, thanks in fact to my participation here on FFL) then
> everything he and the movement had ever done made perfect sense.
>
> The proof is in the pudding. If TM is as great as it is advertised - and mind
> you I have had plenty of experiences of transcending, and lots of CC and GC
> experiences and some Unity along the way since the first year or so of TM -
> if it is as effective as advertised how do you explain the behavior of the
> TMO leaders and not just the top level but pretty much all
> the way through the organization? If TM brings one into Pure Awareness and
> repeated experiences of same lead to the ego becoming erased and all thought,
> feeling, desire and action is Cosmic in nature and upholds all the laws of
> nature, why do so many of the TMO managers and leaders who have done TM for
> decades consistently display unloving, non-compassionate and oftentimes
> spiteful, deceitful controlling behavior?
>
> I feel that to ignore the fruits of the practice of TM which in this case is
> behavior on the part of people you would expect to behave in a exemplary
> fashion doing just the opposite, in fact displaying behavior which is not
> life supporting is living a child-like fantasy - that we just do as we are
> told, don't mind where the money goes and everything will be heaven in the
> end.
>
> Apologies to those who like Wednesday to be reserved for things other than
> this.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: feste37 <feste37@...>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:51 PM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
>
>
> Â
> Have you even bothered to look at the David Lynch Foundation website? They
> are doing an amazing amount of good work. You seem locked into a childish
> cynicism that helps nothing and nobody, not even yourself.
>
> --- In [email protected], Michael Jackson <mjackson74@> wrote:
> >
> > No they aren't - its just bullshit PR to make it look like they have a
> > wider range of "modalities" to offer people - unless they are slyly
> > referring to the ancillary programs of the TMOÃÂ - you know, levitation,
> > Hindu fire offerings, climbing into a house through the east facing window
> > cuz the house door faces south - stuff like that
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: salyavin808 <fintlewoodlewix@>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2:37 PM
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
> >
> >
> > ÃÂ
> >
> >
> > --- In [email protected], nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > The David Lynch Foundation raises funds and provide grants for the
> > > implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities,
> > > including Transcendental Meditation, for such at-risk populations.
> > >
> > > http://www.charitybuzz.com/auctions/dlf
> > >
> >
> > What do they mean "including" TM? Surely they aren't backing two horses are
> > they?
> >
>
