BTW, Buck, before you go off on one of your Fascist "Gotta silence these neganauts on FFL" rants, I am *not* saying that the world would not benefit if more people learned to meditate. I'm saying that I don't think that TM has a snowball's chance in hell of being the form of meditation they learn.
It just drags along with it too much "baggage" at this point, caused by the crass commercialism, the fake (or, at best, self-serving and exaggerated) "research" that's been used to sell it, the haughty and superior attitude of those teaching it, the incredibly bad taste left in everyone's mouth by it being so hideously overpriced for so long, the "add-on- baggage" of Ayurveda, S-V, yagyas, pundits and the (in the eyes of most people in the world) laughable "sidhis." Then there's the all-important "hipness factor." TM is about as hip as 45rpm records. Ask around at any gathering of people interested in meditation, and see what they think of TM and TMers. Price too high? You couldn't *pay* many people enough to entice them to learn TM, it has such a reputation for being low-rent and uncool. What is needed is a non-religious (TM is anything but), secular practice with no Hindu trappings and no allegiances to any long-standing Eastern religious culture, taught for free or for a maximum of $25, in one weekend, and with no attempt to rope people who learn it into any kind of "organization" or into taking any kind of "advanced" add-on courses. That can -- and will -- never happen with TM. In the spiritual marketplace of the future, it's deader than Maharishi. Just my opinion... --- In [email protected], "TurquoiseB" wrote: > > --- In [email protected], wrote: > > > > There is the problem again. Better get on the stick and > > price TM so regular people can afford to try it. TM is > > going to get left deep in the dust if they don't get going > > really soon... > > Doug, with all due respect, that happened (TM being > left in the dust) decades ago. The *only* people on > earth who don't understand this are the TM dinosaurs > who are still so convinced of their own superiority that > they still believe they're part of something viable. >
