--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: <snip> > > What I remember being told is that the > > content of thoughts that arise likely have > > nothing at all to do with the content of > > the stresses being released. > > That's only half true. I just looked it up, I still have the notes: > let's say the stress was created through an overwhelming feeling of > joy. When the stress is getting released you will re-experience the > joy, but you will attribute it to something in your immediate > environment.Let's say you expect a friend to come, and you will > associate the *feeling* with the present event. But the feeling will > be reminescent of the stress being released according to 2nd day > checking.
I remember we were told it *might* pick up the feeling, but it might not. This would have been in 1975; I wonder if it was changed since your TTC. <snip> > Yes, understood. But in Indian terms, getting rid of Samskaras > wouldn't necessitate reliving the energy of it. In Indian and I guess > Buddhist terms, Samskaras are desires or latent impressions giving > rise to the desire to reincarnate. Purifying oneself of these desires > or impressions wouldn't necessitate living through it, not even > emotionally or energetically. Well, but that's pretty much what I remember being told in the TM context. <snip> > > This explanation also has the effect of making it > > easier to take thoughts as they come rather than > > being tempted to examine them to discover what > > stresses are being released. > > The explanation is phantastic. Thats the upside. The downside is, > that if you believe in it, you are hooked up to a kind of > cypernetic model of having to do something, and unless you do it, > i.e. release stresses one by one, you can't get enlightened. Yet > the truth is you can get enlightened in one stroke - immediate > enlightenment, if you have the sudden insight, and disassoziate > from your desire mind and ego. Not sure what you mean by "phantastic," but I don't see how the TM model precludes instant enlightenment. I never thought it did. There's more than one way to skin a cat. 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/
