--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I was in school, public school, I remember they read a > passage > > from the Bible, sometimes in the morning; I rather enjoyed that > > moment of spiritual reflection, even as a child. > > I suppose, they would have found TM to be a religion, as has been > > said, no matter how it had been presented. > > Now, our culture, has become so anti-spiritual anything, that the > > separation of church and state issue, has in a way undermined the > > right to even have a moment of silence, in school, which is > > currently being debated. > > The one thing that is missing in the schools, in our culture, and > in > > our world, is Silence. > > If you call a process of gaining silence a religion, and ban it > from > > school or any other place, what you end up with is chaos. > > Then chaos becomes the preferred religion, of our time. > > > > Yeah, I remember going on a TM course to Washington DC and due to a > group of TMers earlier meditating for 20 minutes in the public > gallery of the Senate, they passed a law that you couldn't close > your eyes for an extended period in the gallery while the Senate was > in session. > > So when us meditators filed in wearing our ill fitting suits, we > were told specifically that we would have to leave if we closed our > eyes.
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