--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "claudiouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Elites/rich people are typically penny pinchers. They go out of > their way to save the odd dollar.
Uh huh. Thats why they shop at Nordstroms and stay at $500 / night hotels. I am not saying they are not looking of a "deal" but its of theorder of saving 15% on a case of $150/bottle Merlot. > They > want also the "badges" of the elite - designer labels etc to > demonstrate that money is no object when it comes to show their > appreciation of "quality" and celebrate their "belonging" to a > priviledged group. Um, but they penny pinch when doing so, right? > The trouble, for MMY, is that whilst TM may > represent "quality" so do other techniques such as Buddhist ones, > now also boasting scientific validation; moreover there is a global > traditional "culture" of spirituality that is clearly at odds with > the materialism of the TMO, which therefore makes it suspect. And as > others have pointed out, as soon as anyone investigates the TMO's > public image there are not one but a huge number of things that are > off-putting. The TMO is just not "cool", it's downright embarassing. And you are 100% certain this will be the case in ten years, when the new wave of Lynch (and other) funded research MAY be published in premier journals, gorgeous real good-vibe peace palaces MAY be in every wealthy neighborhood, and neo-TM teachers MAY be from "elite" families, socialy connected and adept, and dripping with ojas and peacefulness, doing program 6-8 hours a day? > If attracting the elite was the objective then it would have made > sense to get elite advice on how to do this. Um, getting several hundred people willing to pay one million seems like a darn good focus group to me. > The reason so many of > us are baffled, the non-elites, right? > I think, is that the whole unfolding of the TMO and > its activities seems uninformed, mindless and counterproductive. And you have been there in the planning sessions when this unfolded? You are 100% certain there is no substance to M.'s 50-100 years plans for the org? > The > only thing that makes any overall sense sense to to you, right? Not sense in an objective sense,right? > is the "money-grabbing > tunnel-vision" interpretation; And yours is NOT a tunnel-vision" interpretation? > and a systematic avoidance of putting > the large pundit groups effect to the test (MMY could have done it > with his own resources decades ago). You know this as 100% certain, and you know all of the tradeoffs and factors involved inthe decision? Glad to see TM as made you so arrogance-free. >There is too much ignorance and > denigration of what good already exists around around this post? > - beautiful buildings > and cities, democratic principles, human rights, musical and visual > sophistication, sublime spiritual icons. > In their place wooden, > ridiculous, robotic figures are exaulted as infallible authority > figures You know the rajas personally? Now? I saw a video of Raja Felix. He did a good job, mannerism wise -- not wooden at all. Bright, corgial, humerous, relaxed. And his wife was quite beautiful,graceful, and down to earth. > who seem as unspiritual again, you hang with the rajas and have a basis for a cogent opinion? >This doesn't seem a good return on such personal investment for > anyone, let alone an "elite"! Well, lucky for you, you are not an elite and won't have to make that decisions. 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/
