--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The cause of the abject failure of the Lynch > Foundation to help 275 people to learn TM is *not* > right-wing Christianity. It's the TMO. > > David Lynch has a noble intent. He has experienced > numerous benefits from practicing TM, and wishes > that more people could learn it and also benefit. > But he understands that the thing that is standing > in the way of people learning TM is *the TM organ- > ization itself*. That organization, with its high > prices and its history of cultishness, is the > reason why almost no one is learning TM. Since > the TMO was never going to do anything to correct > this situation and make TM more available to more > people, Mr. Lynch tried to. > > IMO he picked a dumb way to do it. You don't mess > around with school systems in the US without running > into flack, no matter *what* program you want them > to provide to students. IMO what he should have done, > if what he wanted to do was increase the number of > people starting TM, is to make public some kind of > scholarship fund with *no* school or guvmint affil- > iation, open to everyone. For example, offer to > pay 90% of the cost of learning TM for *anyone* > who is willing to commit to practicing it regularly > for six months or so. That would have been more > expensive for him, but it might have worked, and > no one would have been able to interfere with it. > > But let us not lose sight of the REAL PROBLEM. > It's not right-wing Christians or even vocal ex- > TMers. It's Maharishi, and the TMO. > > *They* are the ones who have priced TM out of the > reach of the public. *They* are the ones who are > preventing people from learning TM. David Lynch > is doing what he's doing to *counteract* their > influence. He deserves credit and praise for what > he's doing to help more people learn to meditate. > Maharishi and the TMO deserve none at all. >
I agree with most of what you say above. One of the things I would say a little differently is the 90% thing. I would offer 90-100% of the cost provided that the grantee do TM regularly for 6 months. In other words: the grantee himself pay $2,500, do TM for 6 months (including once a month mandatory checking) and after that time period get a check from the foundation for the $2,500 (of 90% of it). That way, a little work has to be done by the student: coming up by himself or via a loan for the $2,500 (maybe one of those Chase loans). 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/
