--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Real wrote: > > > My personal experience with the TMSiddhi program in total is that > > nothing previous to this practice has so clearly cultivated the > > growth of silence into my daily life. Having said that, I tend to > > think that the Siddhi practice especially the flying sutra was > > brought out by MMY more for the effect it would have on the world as > > a whole rather than how it immediately rescue the practicioner from > > the world of dharma and suffering. I suspect that the majority of us > > here have so far to go before we are fully disentangled from our > > masses of karmic knots that it's better we concentrate on cleaning > > our house rather than vacating it. In short, for most the TMSiddhi > > practice or something like it is the most appropriate action for now. > > That still doesn't answer the question of the tradition. The tradition > says one thing, MMY advocates something entirely different. What is > advocated is not a "sudden" path--it is a gradual path. But it > definitely does not advocate siddhis. In fact, it goes so far as to say > these will prevent CC and BC.
What constitutes the "tradition".? A few or many esteemed individual teachers that are considered to be representative of the truth? Here are a few possibilities; the tradition is right and MMY is wrong, MMY is right and the tradition is wrong, the tradition has been misinterpreted by students, the TMSiddhi practice has been misinterpreted in relation to other traditions. In the end, you are the expert, decide for yourself. Rick Carlstrom 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/
