I absolutely agree with what you are saying. In addition to the factors you mention, there is also the track record the Movement has created both amongst the long time practitioners of TM and the general public.
One learns, if one does TM for any length of time and associates with the people who run the Movement and the Movement facilities, one will get screwed - the leaders and managers of the Movement just do not behave very well at all, certainly not like people who have mastered "friendliness, happiness and compassion." The Movement has also demonstrated many, many times its unwillingness to work on common projects such as ayurveda with others who are not part of the Movement unless everyone gets on board with TM and the Movement gets to run the agenda - in other words for this example, the other folks like Vasant Lads people would cease to practice ayurveda and begin to promote Marshy Ayurveda. But I suppose that is included in their general arrogance and uncaring attitude toward what anyone else needs or wants. And lastly the Movement has demonstrated time and time again it cannot be trusted and its methods of attempting to work with people and organizations outside the Movement typically runs along the lines of the other organization or people put up all the money, take all the financial risk, the Movement gets at least half the profits and all the praise and even then it is typical of the Movement to bail out on a project when its incomplete, leaving everyone else holding the bag. For these and the reasons Barry stated the TM deal will never catch on in public awareness ever again no matter how many celebrities David Lynch parades across the television screen stumping for TM. Those like David who wish with all their hearts the general public would embrace TM and esp. TMSP should take the advice I gave a long time ago - break completely away form the Movement , distance yourself from Marshy and start fresh. Teach people without all the baggage - that MIGHT work, maybe. -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 10/14/13, TurquoiseB <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique To: [email protected] Date: Monday, October 14, 2013, 10:26 AM 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. >
