Rick Archer wrote: > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of Bhairitu > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:28 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'David Wants to Fly' > > > Rick Archer wrote: > >> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >> > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> ] > >> On Behalf Of TurquoiseB >> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:21 AM >> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> >> > > >> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'David Wants to Fly' >> >> I admire that his obsession focuses on the basic >> TM technique and teaching it. I wish he didn't >> have to work through the TM movement to teach it. >> But he does, and thus he is placed in the position >> of using his idealized good intentions to try to >> "legitimize" an organization that does not >> deserve to be legitimized. >> >> I think he's given a fairly long leash, because he's really having an >> impact. And Bobby Roth, his right hand man, is one of the most heartsy and >> creative guys I've ever met. Check out this photo on his blog: >> http://insidedlf.wordpress.com/ >> > > But still lost in the maya of "yoga lite." People who were truly > interested in enlightenment have moved on. > I have, for the most part, but I wouldn't make that judgment. I think there > are plenty of people in the TM movement who are sincerely interested in > enlightenment, and are actually "attaining" it.
The problem is what are they going to do with it? TM is yoga lite and very limited in its teaching. Yes some people would have only needed the stirring of about any mantra to finish off their evolution. My first experience with meditation out of book caused my kundalini to rise to the crown chakra. Obviously I had been messing with this stuff in prior lifetimes. And I know people who claim to attain enlightenment from TM but still moved on and not to mention people very connected with the TMO who still investigated other paths (just didn't tell anyone else in the TMO). Some of them visited and got instruction from my teacher Swami Abhayanand. I think a few changes could have kept the movement very worthy. It was great fun when I started TM in 1973 and still fun when I came back from TTC and taught a few people. But then after the Sidhis program became widespread some teachers got a stick up their butt and started acting like Nazis. That really helped kill the movement. And for the record I never got in trouble with those people but know people who did. I also think the meditation technique that Muktananda taught was probably better for people than TM. His movement just went south though. But many other paths teach the same thing.
