--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/3/06 9:41:10 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > The price of TM is: $52 a month over 4 years, which is $12 a week, > or $1.70 a day. Even poor people in the US spend WAY more than this > on coffee, unhealthy fizzy drinks, and many more unhealthy > unnecessary things every day. > If one did it over 2 tears instead of 4, then it is still only $3.40 > a day. Anyone who has the will to, can afford TM in the US. > > When I first wanted to learn about yogic knowledge, I was ready to > give up everything and travel to India to find what I was looking > for, at great risk to myself and my future. You are now proclaiming > to the people of the world that they should not give up their cafe- > lattes for Vedic knowledge? This incredibly selfish, since you have > already had the benefit of the knowledge. Many people in the world > have nothing to absorb the stress which pushes down upon them > everyday. As a beneficiary of a practice that you can practice any > day, any where, even in a prison, and find relief, if you have any > conscience at all you should be telling as many people as you can, > that TM only costs $3.40 a day for 2 years ! > > OffWorld > > > > The average uninitiated person isn't going to give up their minor comforts, > pleasures, and bad habits to satisfy their curiosity about something so > abstract. Especially if finding a regular practicing TMer is so rare and there are > so many that learned and quit. You have to consider there are many times > more people out there to say theylearned TM and got little or nothing out of it > than can say it has opened the universe to them. Twenty -five hundred dollars > is a very big commitment to the average person. To some, its represents a > couple of mortgage payments, four, five or six car payments, Healthcare > insurance premiums etc, things the average middle class person will not give up or > risk not having in the future should he be between jobs for a period of time. > Vedic knowledge? What the hell is that to the average person of western > culture? It means nothing to them.< If TM is going to out survive it's current > practitioners it has to shake the cult image, stop all the Vedic this and Vedic > that BS, get rid of the religious overtones and charge prices the average > person can whip out a check book and right a check on the spot without a second > thought to pay for the course. It needs to return to being an organization > fun to work for and one not need to fear being black balled by others on power > trips. The proof of the pudding is in the tasting, and Pure consciousness > means Nothing to the average person until they have experienced it.
Very well said. (Hey, I can't believe I'm agreeing with a raving Republican! Maybe the A of E is really upon us!) ;-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
