--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:02 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > > because the TM Program's activity phase is for any > > kind of activity GENUINELY CHOSEN AND IN ACCORD WITH YOUR TRADITION, > > NOT SOME GURU FROM SOME HELL-HOLE IN CALCUTTA OR OTHER LOCALE IN > > INDIA. You fooled yourself and lied to yourself by wrongly choosing > > an activity NOT in accord with the instructions of the TM Program. > > OK, even if Rick and others did do this...so what? What's your point?
The point is they weren't practising TM. Do TM properly and THEN tell us if you think it worked or didn't work. And certainly don't spend 25 years of your life telling others to practise what you're preaching when you yourself weren't even doing it properly yourself. > I don't quite understand why you keep bringing up others' practice, > trying to show how "wrong" they were, and how "right" you are. They > survived, they did what they thought were supposed to do at the > time--however mistaken they might now feel it wast--and then later > realized it was no longer for them, so they moved on. Nothing wrong with that. Just don't put yourself out there as an expert on TM. Better to tell us up front that you practised TM incorrectly for 25 years and THEN moved on. > This > pulling-apart of other's personal paths is puzzling, Did any of them > try to force something on you you felt was wrong, Shemp? Gee, Salvatore, that's the whole point. Many of those I mention forced upon themselves a lifestyle -- joining the TM Cult and entering into a guru/disciple relationship -- that was foreign to them and not even part of the instructions. And, to boot, many of them promoted this unseemly lifestyle to others and encouraged them to be part of something which FORCED an unnatural lifetyle on themselves. > If not, I > don't see how it impacts you or why the constant flow of criticism. We don't just discuss topics on this forum that only impact ourselves, Sal, we discuss all sorts of things. If that were the criteria, there's be 2 posts a day. The criticism? Well deserved...and if they can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. > > My guess is...this is all about the posting limits and your unhappiness > with them, but instead of dealing with it directly, you keep going on > about these other things. > > Sal >
