On Feb 8, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Vaj wrote:
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.'
A woman on the list just shared her story of TM. Apparently she knew
quite a few people who got panic attacks after several years from the
practice. In each case the person was told they were "releasing
stress". Later she met a woman who had been practicing TM for 15
years. She had anxiety attacks as well, had chronic insomnia and said
"[she] was so numb and oblivious to other people’s needs, it scared
me". After meeting this woman, she herself quit TM and now does
Vipassana. She did some research and found out the mantras were not
individually tailored to the individual as she'd been led to
believe. It was then she said she realized it was a huge scam.
