--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:02 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > What many seem to have missed is just how stunning this new > > development > > concerning universal student loans for qualified prospective TMers is. > > Regardless of what you think of TM itself, the TMO, the pricing > > scheme, > > the treatment of uncertified teachers, the rajahs, etc., there's no > > denying that the ability for anyone with good credit to be able to > > obtain a loan from Citicorp to learn TM makes TM completely > > mainstream. > > This is just spiritual materialism at it's worst: simple McMeditation > methods sold for such extreme pricing? So high that people have to > take out loans for this? If in fact they are doing this on the > American taxpayers dollar, I hope someone in the government catches > on and puts a stop to this. >
HOw is a low-cost loan a burden on taxpayers? > TM *was* mainstream years ago, it hasn't been for years other than > through going to extraordinary lengths by their global marketing > apparatus to keep it in the public eye. > > The mainstream now is SSRS and various brands of Buddhist meditation. > Vipassana courses--which are 10 day long courses--are filling up > months in advance and have huge waiting lists. And they don't even > advertise or send B-celebs around to market for them. > The TMO at one point was teaching 35,000 people per month inthe USA. MMY trained thousands of TM teachers over the years. If the situation were equivalent, you'd have a backlog of literally MILLIONS of people wanting to learn Vipassana all at once. And people only value what they have to pay for - the more the better. Any meditation teacher in this day and age who doesn't get that is just engaging in spiritual masterbation. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Dying to be thin? Anorexia. Narrated by Julianne Moore. http://us.click.yahoo.com/abEMxA/sbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
