TurquoiseB wrote: > This is just one of Willy's common troll tactics. > He's trying to get a few people to "bite" on it > here and get into an argument with him about it. > Well, Uncle Tantra, you could clear this up by simply posting the pamplet so we could see it.
> He's lonely. > And then shut your pie hole and get some sleep. So, you admit that you once passed out leaflets promising enlightenment in 5-7 years. If, so you are an idiot, that's fer sure. Compared to you, everyone on the entire planet is enlightened. > "Enlightenment within five years" was right on the > brochures. And then, after five years, it changed > to "5 to 7 years," and then, "impossible without > attending these additional courses we offer," and > now... Well, now it seems to me that very few > people *within* the TM movement assume that they > will realize their enlightenment in this life *at > all*. Those who seem to have realized the nature > of what has always already been present for them > have left the TM movement in the dust. > > And, if you think about it, that's kinda approp- > riate. When you find that the organization that > makes money by promising you enlightenment "someday" > (always in the future) is doing so to make money > from you Here And Now, you start looking in other > places for the enlightenment, places in which it > costs nothing. Like in every breath you take and > every step you take. Like in the phrase that the > inhabitants of Aldous Huxley's "Island" used to > use as a greeting/reminder, "Here and now, boys." > > If enlightenment can be likened to awakening from > the dream of non-enlightenment, then perhaps the > TMO can be excused for selling "We can help you > to wake up, but not just yet" all these years. > They're selling Just Another Dream of Non-Enlight- > enment. Five years. Five to seven years. Thirty- > five years. What's the difference, really? "Waking > up" to the always-already-present nature of one's > enlightenment is *always* Here And Now, and when > that happens you realize that the whole *world* > has been lying to you about how far "away" in > time enlightenment is, not just the TMO and not > just the salesmen who've been hitting you up for > money to bring it "closer." It's always been close; > it's always been Here And Now. It still is. > > Five to seven years? Five to seven lifetimes? > Right here, right now? Your call. >
