--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I knew it was bad wording, but it was late, and I just had no > idea how else to describe my feeling better. By many suicide is > seen as a sin, or some kind bad karmic action. I just wanted to > express that we, the people I knew didn't have these feelings > about him.
Well explained. Thanks. I really didn't mean to be blasting you personally; it's just that the whole situation is so unbelievably *sad*, and for me has such sad implications for the mindset of the organization in which it happened, that I was somewhat shocked by the almost normal, every- day manner in which you described the situation. I realize now that it was simply an issue of language. I'd probably unwittingly do the same thing if I tried to express myself in my as-yet- far-from-perfect French. I *know* that it wasn't your intention. It just pushed some of the same buttons in me that got pushed when I worked at National and would hear people talking about the latest person who'd committed suicide while on a TM course. The concern was always how to downplay the story and make it go away. The very possibility that these suicides (and there were quite a few more of them than you might imagine) might have some- thing to do with "the program" itself was never addressed. That was simply unthinkable. "TM is 100% life-supporting." There couldn't possibly BE a connection. For me, as I suggested in a followup post, the issue is about myth. The myth of the "ideal society" brought about by TM was for these people far more important than the reality of the every- day society of TMers they lived in. If there was a conflict between the myth and the reality, it was always assumed that something was wrong with one's perception of the reality, because the myth couldn't possibly be wrong. Weird, now that I look back on it. But at the time, I occasionally felt the same way, so I can try to be compassionate when dealing with others who still think this way, because I thought that way once, too. The shadows one encounters on a pathway to light, eh man? Unc 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/ <*> 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/
