--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <wgm4u@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <wgm4u@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I like where you're going with this Vaj, true Samadhi or > > > > (transcending, which most meditators, and other groups as > > > > well) seldom achieve, is a very high ecstatic state > > > > certainly never overlooked or forgotten, gads. > > > > > > Just as a fun word nitpick and conceptual exercise, > > > Billy, I would phrase it differently. I would say > > > instead that samadhi is an *everpresent* state that > > > almost everyone overlooks at every moment, until > > > they stop overlooking it, have a clear experience > > > of it as "standalone," with no other thoughts or > > > experiences present, and thus recognize for the > > > first time, as if it were something new. The second > > > realization, that occurs just after, "Wow, this is > > > neat!" is, "Wow, this has been here all along, > > > underlying everything I ever did." > > > > > > The next steps have to do with maintaining the > > > awareness of samadhi *while* everything else you > > > ever did is still going on. > > > > Sounds like moodmaking claptrap conjured up by Eckhart Tolle.....be > > here now man, it's all happening now man, dude! be in the present > > moment......OK Grandpa! :-) > > Tolle's latest book is chock-a-block with > SCI. Fans of Maharishi would love it - except, > maybe, in those parts where he makes sense of > techniques I've never understood, such as > watching one's breath. > > In truth, I had never understood the be-here- > now rap, or the breath-watching method, or > the relationship of consciousness to time, > until Tolle explained them. > > I like where Barry is going in the micro-rap > above. It describes my experience.
Wow...that's like, really present time!
