On Nov 12, 2008, at 3:15 AM, guyfawkes91 wrote:
There's not much available these days. It used to be you could do a weekend rounding course nearly every weekend somewhere and longer courses once or twice a year. You could try suggesting that they do a residence course, and hold your breath and hope they don't get pummeled with vids of Raja Nader Raam getting crowned and all the other circus clowns prancing about. At the moment they'll get pumped with demands for all their money. The movement isn't really interested in poor people who have good experiences, they want rich people, good experiences or not.
Yeah that is a problem, a real help would be to go on at least two residence courses a year, but the problem is the TMO must have some really whacky program material these days, along with even newer weirdness... and they'll be trying to get you to upgrade to the TMSP, another fatal mistake for any wannabe yogi. Better to keep the mantra meditation if you like it and switch to a better and deeper org like the Himalayan Institute or some other credible source of further instruction and credible knowledge.
Good experiences with TM are often neutralized by bad experiences of the TMO. Unless they go totally ga-ga they'll end up like most people; thinking TM is a wonderful technique, promoted by complete idiots.
