The payment plan is actually fairly reasonable. Considering the costs of operations have increased, the total cost appears reasonable. This should attract many new meditators into the TMO.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote: > > The current price of TM is meant to entice the wealthy to learn as "the rich > don't shop at poor stores" to quote the old monk. > > The David Lynch Foundation directly hires TM teachers using donations from > said rich folk and then works with existing charities and groups to teach TM > for free to veterans, orphans, American Indians, etc. > > Your local TM center offers a 4-part payment plan with no credit check, no > interest payments and 100% flexibility in payment options: pay the first > quarter up front, and you have the rest of you life to make the final 3 > payments. For people who aren't filthy rich, the local TM center offers > scholarships and grants. As long as the final amount you pay is over $500, > the same 4-part payment plan is in effect. > > $125 per decade for 3 decades isn't all that expensive: it works out to > making a $125 payment up front, and then saving $12.50 per year and making a > $125 payment every 10 years that you decide to continue practice TM. > > Of course, an honest person would try to pay things off in a reasonable > amount of time, but that's the current payment structure that the TM > organization is using: http://www.tm.org/course-fee >