[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-06-01 Thread TurquoiseB
> > Rick, did that ATR start in Dec. '72 and Maharishi came for the last > > 2 weeks or so? Do you remember more of the analogy? > > Yes. I think the point of the analogy was that just as a screw bores > deep into something, TM enables the mind to go deep within. The funny > thing was that he k

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-06-01 Thread Rick Archer
on 6/1/05 8:53 AM, marekreavis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rick, did that ATR start in Dec. '72 and Maharishi came for the last > 2 weeks or so? Do you remember more of the analogy? Yes. I think the point of the analogy was that just as a screw bores deep into something, TM enables the mind to

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-06-01 Thread marekreavis
Rick, did that ATR start in Dec. '72 and Maharishi came for the last 2 weeks or so? Do you remember more of the analogy? ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 6/1/05 12:39 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > What I wonder is whether

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-06-01 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 6/1/05 12:39 AM, TurquoiseB at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > What I wonder is whether in Maharishi's Vedic > India > > fantasy, anyone would be allowed to *not* meditate > > if they so chose. > > He used to speak, half jokingly, of "meditation

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread TurquoiseB
> > What I wonder is whether in Maharishi's Vedic India > > fantasy, anyone would be allowed to *not* meditate > > if they so chose. > > He used to speak, half jokingly, of "meditation police" who would > apprehend people seen on the street with "long faces" and put them > in "meditation asylums

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread Rick Archer
on 6/1/05 12:39 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What I wonder is whether in Maharishi's Vedic India > fantasy, anyone would be allowed to *not* meditate > if they so chose. He used to speak, half jokingly, of "meditation police" who would apprehend people seen on the street with "l

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread TurquoiseB
> > That's interesting that there is no attempt to introduce exclusionary > > pricing in India -- even laborers can afford 35 rupees --, which > > supports the thesis that MMY only intended, in his go-slow policy of > > unfolding enlightenment for the world, to light a few candles in the > > West

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 5/31/05 4:17 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > That's interesting that there is no attempt to introduce exclusionary > > pricing in India -- even laborers can afford 35 rupees --, which > > supports t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/31/05 4:17 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That's interesting that there is no attempt to introduce exclusionary > pricing in India -- even laborers can afford 35 rupees --, which > supports the thesis that MMY only intended, in his go-slow policy of > unfolding enlightenment fo

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 5/30/05 8:15 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > It would be interesting to know what the actual fee for instruction > > is in India for people who walk into centers, and are not having > > their fees

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-31 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/30/05 8:15 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It would be interesting to know what the actual fee for instruction > is in India for people who walk into centers, and are not having > their fees paid by the state or their company. The only number I have > ever heard is a $5 registra

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-30 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 5/30/05 9:58 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I forwarded this thread to Steve Briggs, who taught in India with > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-30 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/30/05 9:58 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I forwarded this thread to Steve Briggs, who taught in India with > Purusha >> for many years, and he said the following: >> > > Say hi to STeve from Lawso

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-30 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forwarded this thread to Steve Briggs, who taught in India with Purusha > for many years, and he said the following: > Say hi to STeve from Lawson English of Tucson. How is his brother? What have they been up to,

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-30 Thread george
>>> i was under the conviction that initiation >>> into TM is almost nil, anywhere! >> >> I forwarded this thread to Steve Briggs, >> who taught in India with Purusha >> for many years, and he said the following: > > Hi Rick > I know firsthand about several hundred thousand > initiations in India

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in India?

2005-05-30 Thread bbrigante
> Indian TM > teachers are all salaried, but the salaries are small. There must be 500 > hundred or more salaried TM teachers in India (and plenty of > administrators), and the funds to support their salaries probably don't come > from teaching revenues alone because course fees at the Indian

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in india?

2005-05-30 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "George DeForest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blank> Off_world_beings > > > > my understanding is that thousands upon thousands > > have learned TM in the past few years in India. > > The past decade would put it at 100's of thousands. > > Is this an inne

[FairfieldLife] Re: many thousands initiated in india?

2005-05-30 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "George DeForest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blank> Off_world_beings > > > > my understanding is that thousands upon thousands > > have learned TM in the past few years in India. > > The past decade would put it at 100's of thousands. > > Is this an inne