--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning Rick C.: > > On Jun 29, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Rick wrote: > > > This sounds like the Christian approach. > > The samkhya/yogic approach dude. I thought we were talking Patanjali > here? > > > If I act good and think > > good and am good then the kingdom of heaven will open for me. > > LOL. > > > To > > quote MMY, "Only after realization of God can one become good". > > Do YOU believe that?
Good morning to you Vaj I do believe it. I had an experience in the early seventies that could be best described as becoming aware of that which lies behind thought and my life has been completely different since then. Up until that point all my moral, ethical (etc.) decisions were based on some academic or philosophical or handed down idea of what is good. All of those ideas still apply to some degree or another but now (when thinking clearly)I pass all decisions before God, as it were, to reach my final reason. I feel that it is only when my connection with God is "lively", as they say, that my conception of "good" has some real foundation. > > > The > > TM or TM-Siddhi program is an exercise in God realization. > > What God is it realizing? How? God is just a word to describe that ineffable experience of God. When I do my TM-Siddhi program I have that experience. For the no- selfers out there it could be described as "there is the experience of God". How does this happen? How does it ever happen? Can the experience ever really be explained? I don't think so. Sometimes just sitting during a quiet moment, everything can fall away and you see all the way to heaven. I think that all sincere practice can achieve this and of course being overly attached to the practice can get in the way. 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/
