I agree with you %100 - you are totally correct and the major problem with the movement is what you have mentioned. "Silence and activity" together completes the TM programme which for most followers the active part or daily life is swept out of it.
jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I practise the TM Program.
>
> That is to say that for 20 minutes twice a day I sit down and
> practise the TM Technique. But -- equally importantly -- after I
> practise the TM technique I then go into the field of activity and
> engage in action according to my own needs, desires and wants. My
> actions and how I conduct myself in my field of activity are
> dictated by my conscience, my culture, how I was brought up, my
> traditions -- religious and otherwise -- and, of course, common
> sense and rationality.
>
> This is precisely what the TM Program is which, it is important to
> note, isn't either a religion or philosophy. As such, it does NOT
> require or ask for a guru or belief. Indeed, not only are these
> guidelines an explicit part of the instructions of the TM Program,
> they are encouraged (or at least they were for me when I started
> back in '73).
>
> Most of the TM TBers I am exposed to and those in the higher
> echelons of the TMO are, in my opinion, NOT practising the TM
> Program. They are certainly practitioners of the TM Technique but
I
> submit to you that they do NOT practise the TM Program.
>
> For the most part these individuals are engaged in some sort of
> Bhakti program or cult program or guru-disciple relationship in
> which they have thrown out the dictates of their own traditions,
> culture and, most importantly, common sense and have filled their
> periods of activity with somethings else...and that something is
NOT
> what the instructions are for proper practise of the TM Program.
> Their field of activity is filled with guru instructions and a
> philosophy and/or religion not their own and not one that their
> common sense and rationality would allow a reasonable person in
> their situation to engage in.
>
> I am very unhappy that the TMO supports those that do NOT practise
> the TM Program and lends and provides THEM with a support system
and
> does not do the same for those of us who practise the TM Program.
>
> It is very lonely these days being a practitioner of the TM
Program.
Well said. I went through the same thing, feeling like I was an
outcast for not buying into the weirder and weirder stuff the TMO
engages in. Anyway, don't sweat it. It helps to really enjoy and get
into the rest of your life- outside interests, family, work, etc.
All the other stuff. And there is always FFL.
Then it becomes easy to ignore all the cultie stuff of the tmo. As
someone on here said awhile back, we are probably all working out
dependency karma of some kind. So take it e-z, etc. The big left
turn is no big deal.
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