When I taught full time I never saw myself as "selling mantras" or some such thing, but charging for the cost of maintaining a center, publicity and other expenses, and a maintainance lifestyle for me the teacher - plus of course giving about 1/2 to the parent corp as a franchise fee for its role in developing the product and conducting other support operations - at least that's the business angle on understanding the course fee for TM. In short you're charging for the cost of making tm easy and convenient for someone in the US to learn.
I think that was fair when the cost was $75-$175 which it was when I taught. Now with the fee at $2500 or more, that whole model breaks down in my mind. PLus it seems directly contradictory to the impulse we had back then to spread tm as quickly as possible. --- In [email protected], "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with authfriend here. I taught TM full time for a short while and > supported myself doing so. I worked hard and deserved what I earned from it. > It was just as much a job as anything else I could have done. > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I think you people are missing the point, big-time. > > > > > > > > > > The very fact that someone should have to take out > > > > > a loan to learn to meditate is what's criminal. And > > > > > the organization that places the people of the world > > > > > in that position are the criminals.>> > > > > > > > > > > > > Ridiculous. This is what it has been like since the beginning of > > > > time. > > > > > > No, that's what people who are trying to avoid > > > working for a living have been saying since the > > > beginning of time. Other groups have been > > > teaching for free, paying for their teaching > > > efforts themselves, for about the same period > > > of time. > > > > > > The "It's got to be paid for" spiel comes from > > > people who are too lazy to actually work for a > > > living, and who want someone to support them so > > > that they can avoid having to get a job like > > > everyone else. > > > > In what sense are people who work for the TMO > > full time too lazy to work for a living? > > > > > > > > > > > > Historically, in both the West and the East, > > > there have always been groups in which the > > > teachers and monks worked for a living and > > > paid for their teaching efforts themselves. > > > It's just that the lazy fucks who'd rather > > > be supported by people like you than work > > > themselves didn't want you to know about > > > them, and so told you the stuff you just > > > repeated as if it were true. > > > > > > :-) > > > > > > ------------------------ 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/
