--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote: > > By famous people, I meant people like David Lynch, > Clint Eastwood, Howard Stern, Donvan, Jerry Seinfeld, > and so on, all of whom have been meditating in the > 4 decade range.
Lawson, don't you *ever* get tired of being a perpetual groupie, and gaining your sense of self worth by associating yourself in your mind with people you've never met, and with whom the only thing you have in common is that you all once learned a simple, rudimentary technique of meditation? You demonstrate a classic syndrome among TMers, one that started with *Maharishi's* groupie-love. The man was just *shameless* about sucking up to people who were famous or rich, and then trying to use *their* fame, or their celebrity, or their names to enhance his own, as if some of their creativity and success could "rub off on him" by association. The issue is NOT what a few cherry-picked "success stories" (most of whom were famous LONG before they ever learned TM) have done with their lives. It's what YOU -- and others like you who keep trotting out this "Just look at the famous TMers" meme -- have done with your lives. Me, I'm just an ordinary, garden-variety writer who currently gets paid fairly well to shuttle back and forth between the Netherlands and France. I've never claimed to be "enlightened," and have no organization I'm part of or "represent," and no "image" to maintain. So I can just be myself. There is no one I even *could* suck up to in an attempt to bolster my supposed "specialness." But YOU GUYS seem to fall back on this "Just look at the famous TMers" meme any time someone asks YOU what you've accomplished with YOUR lives. What's up with that? It couldn't possibly be that you *haven't* accomplished very much with your lives, could it? It couldn't be that few people you even have had *contact with* in the TMO have ever done much with their lives, could it? But it doesn't matter, as long as there are one or two "famous TMers" you can point at whenever the issue comes up. Like Paul McCartney, who only claimed to have stopped smoking dope a year or so ago. Or David Lynch, who hasn't done a film other than music videos, festival trailers, or shorts since 2007. Or Donovan, whose new album "Shadows Of Blue" was self-published and is so obscure you can't even find it on Amazon. Clint, to his credit, is still trying to make movies, but his production seems to be in financial jeopardy, possibly as a result of his "talk to the chair" Eastwooding routine. Jerry Seinfeld? Well, to his credit, the writing for "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee" was nominated for an Emmy, but other than that he doesn't seem to have done much of anything except guest performances and voice-overs since his show went off the air in 1998. Seems to me that if you want to continue to gauge your *own* self worth by associating yourself with TMers, you're gonna have to search a bit further to find any who are "worthy." An alternative, of course, might be actually DOING something yourself, instead of living on fantasies based on a dogma that is not and was never true.