*Maharishi Said*: "Well, you see, it is like this. Absolutely everything is fixed, and absolutely everything can be changed at any time." (Maharishi - Squaw Valley, 1968 )
> > The TM Rajas chose to see it the way they do. They could also chose to do it > differently. They could certainly de-link sitting with saints from getting a > current dome badge. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And that's the reason you were admitted. They may want to punish you, > > > > > >with the programs you already learned, but didn't sign you off as a > > > > > >potential customer. > > > > > > > > > > > > > It is true, there is an ambient aspect of fear there over 'place'. As > > > > I interview people folks do speak to that bad feeling of fear in the > > > > dome as a thing that gets pointed to as a reason by people who don't > > > > like meditating in the domes who are not going to the domes. It is a > > > > feeling. That there is an ambient fear in the place because of the > > > > essential culture of the movement administration for so long. The way > > > > people describe it, fear is like a marination in the meditation. That > > > > is sad and evidently an old problem as the dome numbers with the > > > > community show. > > > > > > > > > > The other evening, I was struck by noticing the hundreds of people there > > > in the dome who have dome badges in defiance of the Rajas' anti-saint > > > policy. At the Maharaja lecture which ostensibly was a 'badge-only' > > > meeting, there are a lot of people who are much worse than I ever have > > > been in seeing saints. > > > > > > > The scale of it is laughable ironic except that it is sad. But there are > > just a whole lot of rank-and-file saint-seeing folks there meditating in > > the domes who like being there who could lose their dome badges in a moment > > over a whisper. There are national leaders of most all the saints in the > > dome there with current valid dome badges and a lot of saint-seeing > > meditators generally are on the Howard Settle Foundation assembly stipend > > getting paid to actually be in the dome. At $850 a month, that Settle > > foundation money is extremely important income for keeping many old-time > > old meditators living here too. Folks may risk their employment or housing > > otherwise too besides the dome badge having sat with saints. The > > TM-taliban Raja use of fear as punishment is a bad state of affair here > > that the TM-taliban have had with people's meditation. It's a bad energy > > there that is palpable. > > >
