--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6...@...> wrote: > > You left out, as a cause of anger, just plain bad manners, which is not > really a cause, but an expression of it. When Primal Scream Therapy came on > the scene, I think a lot of people looked on it as a way to *unload* their > emotional baggage and some how , they would be purified. Maharishi thought > the idea was stupid, yet *seemed* to practice it. BTW, does anybody know , > first hand, if Maharishi ever apologized to anybody he ever unloaded on?
I think arrogance and entitlement have a lot to do with what I see as personality defects in TMers. Especially some teachers and purusha seem to have a superiority complex that puts them above the common herd. Not all of them by any means, most I met are really nice, but enough for me to notice and ponder. It's all that being told they are the elite of the spiritual world I guess. > --- On Fri, 4/9/10, Hugo <fintlewoodle...@...> wrote: > > > From: Hugo <fintlewoodle...@...> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Can meditation help control my anger? > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Friday, April 9, 2010, 8:36 AM > > >  > > > > >  > A rather irritating Guardian journalist goes in search of inner peace..... > http://www.guardian .co.uk/lifeandst yle/2010/ apr/08/tanya- gold-meditation > From my own experience I'll say that TM does not prevent anger, there are no > shortage of stroppy, short fused people in the TMO. The only reason I don't > count myself among there number is that I retain a bit of self awareness and > can hold it back until I've rationalised whether someone deserves a good > kicking or not. > In fact it was one of the great surprises to me that TM made me very angry > indeed and quite a lot of the time, last thing I expected given the > literature. Shame I was never asked to be in a study about it's effects, > might have swayed the figures a bit. > So what causes anger in meditators? Is it unstressing or an imbalance > somewhere or the release of repressed urges and the revealing of my "true" > self? Or am I just a miserable git who wants to destroy the world? > Maybe TM is unsuitable for some people and we'd be better off doing a > different, less fraught, type. >  >  >