Good answer, Steve. I began TM because Maharishi said we would fulfill all our desires. Very rajasic here, dontcha know (-:
Anyway, I've heard that it's the job of the teacher to trick the seeker's ego into getting onto a spiritual path. I'm still glad my ego got tricked! On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 7:09 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : snip And besides, we have a new generation hungry for anything better than what our plastic society offers them, or something to give them an edge. We all wanted that at some point, we also all wanted easy answers to life's problems and that's what TM promises more than anything else I can think of. Meditate twice a day and all your problems disappear! Really? Is that what I wanted? I started as a teenager, at the behest of girlfriend. It offered some respite for a few minutes a day to a difficult adolescence. I don't recall ever feeling that it was an easy out to life's problems. Nor did I ever present it that way as an teacher of the technique. Marvellous but demonstrably not true except for a few isolated cases perhaps. But I can't laugh because I fell for it myself. Spiritual desire is real and TM is a great way of getting the first hit that makes you hungry for more. >> >> >>
