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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
There are a few here, that take great delight in bashing meditation programs
they do not participate in.
Are we reading different forums? Who are these people? I see a bit of
criticism of things unrelated to meditation, like the ridiculous claims of
yagyas and world peace creation that have nothing to do with TM but arose as
cash-creation schemes that are successful only because people brought into the
belief system espoused by Marshy. Anyone taking a long, cold look at any of
these add-on claims is rapidly disillusioned.
Same folks that get pissed at others for taking attention away from them.
These folks have nothing to offer - no skills, no abilities, no outside
interests. They just like to create doubt, and confusion, to mirror their own.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. Maybe people who have seen
through something you fervently believe without any evidence is doing you a
favour in bringing it to your attention?
Perhaps if they could convince just one person of their cynical and depressing
view of the world, they win. Sadly, there is no way to convince another human
being of the error of their ways, without providing an alternative.
Sorry to labour the point but a life free of being ripped off by bogus and
deluded holy men is a life of joy and wonder, just think of what you can find
out if you aren't encumbered by dogma, there's a fascinating world out there.
Who was it discovered the gravity waves that prove universal inflation after
the big bang, the pope? some pandit in a cave chanting 1500 year old poems?
John Hagelin? No, it was someone with vision and freedom of thought to explore
whatever avenue they wanted. It's that that enriches the world not new age
foolishness. That, like all religion, holds you still and unevolving, not even
question whether Your own ideas are correct. Some enlightenment....
This is why I never got on on the TMO, they think they know it all when really
they are floundering in the dark. If you want examples I've got millions. It's
the fundamentalist religious world view that depresses me and not the people
that try and see through it. Anyone who challenges the people who make money
keeping good folks like yourself in the stone age is fine by me.
These TM bashers have nothing to say in that regard, making the point, instead,
that they are living proponents of a lifetime spent bashing TM, Maharishi, Guru
Dev, Hindus, Indians, mantras, pandits, yagyas, and anything else that they
attach their failed lifetimes to. This misdirected anger, is then meant to buoy
the TM skeptics out there, with the result that they, of course, want to
emulate the TM bashers, vs. learning TM. What a joke. For one thing TM
strengthens the ability for successful social relationships. Compare that to a
TM basher, who sits alone in cafes and his room, watching TV and drinking beer.
What would your choice be? Pretty obvious, huh?
You're going to have to help me out, I can't remember anyone here ever
slagging off TM, it's just a meditation technique for crissakes. And we've all
done it so we all know what it's like and how it compares to others (provided
you've had the imagination and desire to learn new things enough to try a
different technique).
So, it doesn't work that way. People are attracted to leaders, and those with
full hearts. The ones that live in the dark world of criticizing everything,
want others to look up to them, but they are consistently crawling around on
the ground, making such a desire impossible.
The other day I heard that the TMO was sued after someone had taken ayurvedic
products while pregnant and their child was born with lead poisoning. Not only
did the TMO hush it up, they still sell ayurveda as the ultimate system of
health care. Talk about crawling around on the ground! Talk about a dark world!
My desire is always education and knowledge and breaking free of rigid
unhelpful beliefs and thought patterns. To do that you have to challenge what
you have been told, I can see you are a long way from that Doc. But to make it
easier, think of your own children caged behind barbed wire in a foreign
country chanting prayers for the "benefit" of others. Something you'd be proud
of? Pleased with their life choice? Maybe you would, maybe you think it's the
highest honour, but you're in the crowd swigging Kool-aid so you can't be said
to be objective.
Breaking free of cults is hard and the TMO is brilliant at drawing you in with
it's implausible rubbish. But we the newly free, will continue to try and help
you open your eyes. Consider it a service.
