On 10/26/2014 5:21 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
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It really *was* nice arranging for good food, comfortable facilities, a *few* audio or video tapes, and then a number of prepared advanced lectures and discussions, plus plenty of time to enjoy the solitude, take walks and enjoy what a "retreat" is really supposed to be all about.
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/You would last about ten minutes on a meditation retreat with a Zen master or a Tibetan Lama - maybe five minutes at a Bikram yoga studio.//After paying big bucks to attend a TM retreat in Europe, you just had to walk across the street to buy an ice cream sandwich! You could have saved yourself a lot of money and time by just sleeping and dozing in your apartment above the ice cream shop. Go figure./
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Then the assholes in Seelisberg started trying to impose their Fascist ideas on everyone, and started creating "rules and regulations" that teachers of these courses were required to follow. A "buddy system" so that no one was ever allowed to be alone unless they were in their rooms meditating. Yeah, THAT's a sane idea for someone who has paid money for a retreat to allow them to get away and experience what it's like to be alone with themselves for a weekend.

Next the participants weren't allowed to leave the facilities. They couldn't go into town, or drive a car, or go out for a dessert, even if the restaurant was across the street.

Finally, the schedules for these courses began to be "padded out" so that the participants were not allowed even a moment of free time. Every moment was accounted for -- they had to either be eating, meditating and "doing program," or on an official Walk And Talk while in the company of their buddy, or sitting in a room watching a videotape of Maharishi trying to sell them something.


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