--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My guess is that the threat of a lawsuit by the fundies had > more of an impact on killing the TM club than the vocal ex-TMers.
I think you're probably correct. They (the Lynch Foundation) was afraid of having a precedent set. As noble as Mr. Lynch's intent is to help enable more people to learn TM, I can't help but think that his "solution" is ignoring the fundamental problem -- the price is too damned high. As far as I can tell, this $175,000 grant "to the school system" is just a disguise for funneling $165,000 of it ($600 per person instructed) directly to the TMO, with $10,000 offered to the school system as a kind of bribe, and to cover the cost of a room in which the students could meet. The whole idea of trying to introduce TM at a "reduced price" to students points out that Mr. Lynch *under- stands* what the real problem is, and that this is his attempt to get the TMO to do what it should have done long ago -- lower its prices. If TM instruction cost what it should (a maximum of $75), and if the instructors did a good enough job of presenting its benefits, people would still be learning to meditate. The "grant" idea, although noble in its intent, is a "patch" to the fatally flawed policies of an organization that seems bent on pricing itself out of existence. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
