Same reason I had less and less to do with the TMO over the years - I saw established arrogance and corruption. The last TM course I went on was that big Washington DC one about 20 years ago.
I was quite excited when it was announced and immediately reserved and paid for a single room for myself. Many weeks later when the course began, I was asked to show up at a large hotel for a room assignment. I got there on time, around 4PM. Finally, after being there six and a half hours, watching rooms being held for Governors who hadn't showed up and other odd things, I was given a shared room in a dormitory on a campus far away, with no apologies. I was completely bummed - not what I wanted or expected, or had paid for. There was no explanation of what happened to my reservation or why, though even at the remote facility, single rooms were still being held for absent Governors. I stayed one night and left the course the next afternoon. Sayonara, and all that. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: > > > > > > > This is all fine and can explain something of how natural law works > > in the body. Life in the body, of even the awakened. > > But what of the influence of growing up, culture? Learning manners? > > Skill-sets of social grace or not. Socialization. Some people obviously > > do groups better than others. > > But the range and distribution of getting along anyway is somewhere around > > the 'golden rule' as mean for most any culture that works, with some > > outliers either way. > > > > Like, I observe that this (a bad-behavior of poor manners) is a large > > aspect of why people who could meditate in the domes to help with the dome > > numbers do not in fact go to the domes. There is an evident TM ambiance of > > bad or rude behavior that has been allowed > > to rule particularly over places to sit and turf in the domes. A bad > > up-bringing that has gotten away with itself. Is that TM? Or just a poor > > moral reasoning that the movement has fostered? > > > > A few years ago Korean Airlines (KAL) flight safety was so bad they were > being asked to not land at airports in places around the world. The > essential problem was their culture. Poor collaboration inside the cockpit > cabin by culture. It took a while to figure out what was going on as to why > they were so dysfunctional as flight crews. However, it was an essential > cultural dysfunction. > > To change the safety problem KAL in consulting had to bring veteran American > pilots from Delta Airlines who literally had to break the Korean culture to > get them to communicate effectively inside the cockpits to be able to > effectively (safely) fly. It took some work to do but now KAL is flying fine > and safe. > > The domes? The TM-Rajas could take a lesson from KAL in managing the domes. > It might even take breaking a culture to get the dome numbers up and sustain > them. The TM-Rajas certainly could help with the evident cultural problem of > poor behavior that is there in the domes that keeps people away from the > domes. > > JGD, > -Buck > > > I survey asking folks all the time if they have current dome badges and > > whether they go to meditate in the domes(?). An endemic TM problem of > > rudeness is by far the largest reason that people tend not to go to the > > domes. There are other practical reasons that people do not make the domes > > the place they meditate. But a manifest climate of airs and poor behavior > > by far is the largest reason that folks do not go to the domes with any > > regularity. TM? Improved moral reasoning? Evidently not. Room for > > improvement? Evidently so if they would like to get the numbers up. They > > should might have to break a culture to change things for the better. > > They've got a bad reputation. The TM-Rajas could change that to change > > things if they were not oblivious to their problem at hand. Life in the > > body. > > > > JGD, > > > > -Buck in FF > > >
