---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> In fact, I think that the US TM organization has proven that it doesn't care that much about money. $800,000 is chicken feed, and they've dropped teh price on a semi-permanent basis, so obviously, money isn't as big a deal as you seem to think. As long as they can make expenses and keep the TM teachers fed and sheltered, the actual price that new meditators pay can drop pretty darned low. I know several people who get extra funding from the DLF to make TM instruction affordable, and that was on top of whatever discount the TM center could offer. Lawson, you are either missing the point or attempting to distract from it. NOT A PENNY of the money going to "subsidize" TM instruction comes from the TM organization's assets. It is provided in the form of donations to the DLF or from some program subsidized by individuals or some school system. Prove that. Also, if you weren't aware, it is common practice to keep a nice amount of cash at hand, money you invest and never hope to have to touch in order to run a business. Just because your company has cash and/or investment holdings doesn't mean you should use it to run the company. You use the income generated by the business to do that. Maharishi's basic tenet is in place today, just as it was during his lifetime: "We don't use *our* money to pay for ANYTHING...people have to pay US." That has never changed. That will never change. You are the victim of rumour and have fallen for an idea you don't actually know is true since you have been absent from the organization for about, what , three decades? Your statement might be true but you don't know that for sure just as I'm not going to believe you just because you wrote it down here. How does that constitute "money not being as big a deal as I seem to think?" It's ALL about the money.
