Yes, it is interesting to see who all is still here when you go to these 'other' programs. For instance, this last summer when the lady-saints tours came through. Ammachi gave darshan to about 4000 people while she was here. Yes, some people travel here to see her here but a lot of those people were from here. Similar thing with Karunamayi. Again recently with Bapuji, an elderly holy man who came through and gave darshan. It was very interesting to see who came out of the woodwork this year in particular after the whole 're- certification' thing on campus effectively spun so many out of responsibility for the movement.
Now, there may be a couple of thousand adult meditators who remain living in the larger meditating community and only just a few hundred true-believers up on campus or up north in just the TMO fold. Yet most meditators who occassionally git asked if they are 'meditators', might generically say 'yes they came here as meditators' and then more freely distance themselves now from that which is 'TMO'. As the Weekly Reader article says, FF has become something else. -Doug "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And this suggests that a lot of people decided to go "off the program," rather than use MMY's programs exclusively. This, of course, is their choice, but certainly explains why so few people are in the domes. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Fairfield Weekly Reader this week published a directory of 'active > > spiritual practice groups' in Fairfield. Twenty seven groups > listed. > > > > In looking over the list there is a range, but they are active ones. > > Evidently there is a lot of spiritual practice going on here > > independent of the TMO. Going through the list, it is pretty evident > > too that there are now way more people living here doing 'other > > things'than going to the domes. > > > > -Doug > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
