On Feb 8, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
I see that over at alt.buddha.short.fat.guy there was one thread about Maharishi, "TM Founder Dies," with but four snide posts. I wudda thunk there'd be a flood of stuff there. Er, so, how are other groups handling this? So, anyone who is reading other groups who can summarize the responses please chime in.
On a large list of Buddhist scholars and practitioners it got a brief mention. One person shared their stories of people they had seen who had been damaged thru it's practice, leading to nervous breakdowns. The same guy, who had practiced TM in the 70's for a couple of years, said it seemed to make people "gullible", it's teachers seemed "numb" and compassion was lacking in them. He also had taught several ex-TM people Vipassana meditation. One sidha said 'after his instructions he finally began to understand what meditation actually was about.'
