--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Is that sense of "easy and simple" ever misleading? > > > I'm thinking of MMY, and wondering whether that's why > > > he assumed most everyone in the world would take to > > > TM as soon as they heard about it, that governments > > > would leap at it, and so on. > > > > > are you talking about the process of awakening or the awakened > > state itself? > > I mean, assuming MMY is awakened and everything seems > easy and simple to him, could that sense have been > what misled him to think it would be easy and simple > for him to convince most everyone in the world to take > up TM?
Personally I think it was several elements that led him to believe and proclaim such things: 1. He saw a need for the world that could be met by his capability, to essentially reinvent meditation as something practical for the householder. 2. As with any endeavor that speaks to our heart, he wanted as many as possible to take it up. 3. Since the technique is easy to learn and practice he saw it as easily accepted. 4. His vision was to benefit the whole world, not a subset of it. As to whether he misjudged the difficulty of the task, I doubt it. The goal was initially to spread TM to one percent of the world's population, because that is what he thought would enlighten, or awaken, the world. As the task progressed, so did the dynamics; the interplay between the silence being awakened and brought into the world, by all our tiny little meditating brains. So his formulas changed, as the world changed. Perhaps your question is whether or not he failed in his mission to enlighten the world. That I cannot answer. The only thing I know for certain is that he brought enlightenment to the world. What the world chooses to do with it is the world's business, far more than it is mine. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
