--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > I wonder how much of a technique is needed to meditate. >
> I've been told that MMY once said, "TM isn't a technique. > We call it a technique because it works." > > ************** Right, TM is the pathless path -- the path reduced to the goal. MMY commentary on v.5, ch.6 of the Gita: "This teaching illuminates the whole area of the search for truth. Nothing in the outside world is relevant to this search. For the Lord says, there is no friend of the self other than the Self. No particular culture or way of life is especially conducive to Self- realization; no sense of detachment or attachment is conducive or opposed to Self-realization. Renunciation of the world, or a recluse way of life, is not especially helpful to the unfolding of the Self, for it unfolds Itself by Itself to Itself. The wind does nothing to the sun; it only clears away the clouds and the sun if found shining by its own light. The sun of the Self is self-effulgent. Meditation only takes the mind out of the clouds of relativity. The absolute state of the Self ever shines in its own glory."
