and that was the kind of mentality they got from Marshy - ignore it if you like
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On Fri, 10/11/13, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more]
Meditators
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, October 11, 2013, 3:14 PM
Look, the bottom 20 percent of
people live under poverty. The next 20 percent of workers
live just
at or above poverty. The next third of workers live just
above that.
These all are of the working poor. At 60 percent of the
work force
we are only yet at the shrinking middle class, at people who
could
buy cars, buy houses, and educate their kids. Here in
Jefferson
County nearly a third of kids under 21 live in poverty. This
is the
reality and the TM-Raja hope for someone to walk in to TM
palaces who
will pay full freight. Slim chance.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
A
day's wage for a working retail worker, about $55. TM
charges $1,500
to learn meditation. Kind of
embarrassing.
We're
talking working people. A living
wage:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/12/221741963/d-c-mayor-vetos-living-wage-law-targeting-large-retailers
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Changes
certainly can be made and it
is time for the TM-Rajas in charge of the well-being of TM
to make
certain changes such that meditation should be much more
widely
taught. I just spoke with someone teaching at a Peace
Palace in
Chicago. Ditto elsewhere. They just are not teaching
enough to once
again become significant in culture again. Significance.
The
numbers being taught are a pittance and quite evidently the
pricing
is still an obstruction to any significant numbers learning
TM.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
You know, Maharishi was
very able to adapt course to circumstances as he went along.
It is
certainly time for the TM-Rajas to adapt course so the
movement can
teach once again. I am reminded of the time that Maharishi
was in
Fairfield as the Domes were being built. One morning he
came in to
the group meditation over at the campus field house and sat
with it.
He got to talking with the group there. Someone asked about
the Age
of Enlightenment technique and Maharishi asked if everyone
did not
have it? On seeing hands go up for those who did not he
then said
everyone should have it. That day arrangements were made
for people
then to get it. That was done, no money charged for an
$850
technique. Bevan taught it to people then for free.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
And who
made that decision to "create" the Rajas? Your
much vaunted Marshy - says a lot don't it?
On Friday, October 11, 2013 12:15 AM,
"dhamiltony2k5@..." <dhamiltony2k5@...>
wrote:
“Rich
people just care less,”
Well
then, pretty obviously the TM-Rajas being pre-select for
wealth are
too remote to understand the
problem.
Since
the 1970s, the gap between the rich and everyone else has
skyrocketed. Income inequality is at its highest level in a
century.
This widening gulf between the haves and have-less troubles
me, but
not for the obvious reasons. Apart from the financial
inequities, I
fear the expansion of an entirely different gap, caused by
the
inability to see oneself in a less advantaged person’s
shoes.
Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also
addressing
the gap in
empathy.
This
has profound implications for societal behavior and
government
policy. Tuning in to the needs and feelings of another
person is a
prerequisite to empathy, which in turn can lead to
understanding,
concern and, if the circumstances are right, compassionate
action.
“Turning
a blind eye. Giving someone the cold shoulder. Looking down
on
people. Seeing right through
them.
These
metaphors for condescending or dismissive behavior are more
than just
descriptive. They suggest, to a surprisingly accurate
extent, the
social distance between those with greater power and those
with
less”
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/rich-people-just-care-less/?exprod=myyahoo&_r=1
