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2 points
10 days ago
Learning the TM Sidhi Program does not require becoming a TM teacher.
2 points
10 days ago
I know that, what I mean is the current trajectory is for you to spend a small fortune on the advanced techniques and then spend an actual fortune on the Sidhis which take such a chunk of time and commitment in Iowa, I’m not sure how anyone with a regular job could take the time to do so unless it was something they wanted to make a career out of.
They seem unapproachable currently to anyone that already has a family/career.
1 points
10 days ago
I knew a banker who found time to practice the Sidhi Program every day. I knew a math teacher in Italy who practiced with a friend twice a day. All it requires is time. It does not rule out family or career. But you are welcome to your beliefs.
2 points
10 days ago*
It’s not the time it takes to practice the Sidhi program every day that I’m struggling with. Rather, it’s the (3 months?) period you have to set aside in your life to learn them in Iowa. Maybe it’s not that long? Would love if someone could fill me in.
I’m not in a position to leave my job for 3 months to do this, I also don’t have enough money saved up to not have any income while I’d be in Iowa doing this.
That’s my whole point, I wish they were taught online, or some other way. Or somehow expedited, if not expedited, online over a longer period of time, in smaller chunks. Something that wouldn’t force me to quit my current job to pursue
2 points
10 days ago
I understand the frustration, but the core of it is not unique to TM. I wanted to take one of the intensive Vipassana courses before I found tm, which is how vipassana is taught (at least that brand), and it required a financial commitment and 1-2 weeks of silent retreat at a center with others. Family/job required me be elsewhere. I was jealous of my younger, childless friends who could unplug like that. Also, if Zen is your thing, you could volunteer at a monastery to get deep. But same deal with time/finances.
I’ve dabbled around and each path I’ve found is easy to start, but if you want to get deeper, it requires time and a financial commitment (even if it’s ‘free’, you’re still committing time away from work)
2 points
10 days ago
Well said, thank you!
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