> > So Doug, you're saying there are dome-eligible > Fairfield 'rus who would rather meditate at home? > I wonder if they reject the notion that group > practice of the TM-Sidhi program creates good > in society. It would be interesting if they > believe in the efficacy of the TM-Sidhi program, > but reject the Maharishi Effect. >
That efficacy aspect is a level of the question. It is a good question though that can get at things here. More often the answer to efficacy of the ME question is that some lot of people see the behavior of the movement as so bad that the feeling in the domes from that bad character aspect of the movement itself is counter-productive to the experience. It is common when you ask around and listen. Yes, lot of people do not go. It is also remarkable too how many people have current dome badges but do not go. It often does boil down to the moral dissonance problem as you canvas. They do not reject the ME necessarily. Folks know the experience of a good group meditation. That experience and hope is often what had brought people here originally. Increasingly though over the years people are identifying the experience of a bad-group meditation with doing program in the domes. So they would simply rather stay home. Then again it can also just be that some people just do not like to meditate in group regardless. The common denominator here though is that folks mostly do like their meditation. & mostly folks are loyal to that. But yet an equally common denominator when you ask is that most folks do not do the whole blown TM-sidhi thing anymore as their practice, in or out of the dome. Very few do. It has gone on to something else for most people. Of course, a lot of people have left over the years but of what remains, this aspect is pretty clear. I just ask and listen. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" wrote: > > > > Relevant thread, > > > > canvassing around as to why folks are > > not in the dome meditating, > > most often say they `like' meditating > > at home instead of the domes. > > That then breaks down, to that there is > > too much sleeping in the > > domes which dulls the experience, or > > there are too many people bad > > from the old TM-movement and therefore > > the feeling is bad in there > > and 3) there is a comunalenment in the > > group that the administration > > by their chs keeping it from happening. > > Doug, what are you saying in Point 3 above? > > > Mostly folks in the larger meditating > > community would rather meditate > > at home and have a better experience > > than going up on campus. > [snip] >
