--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > ... America. If there is a market for the drugs, > > > > that means that the people who live in this "medi- > > > > tating community" DID NOT FIND WHAT THEY > > > > WERE LOOKING FOR IN MEDITATION. > > > > ********* > > > > Vasistha's Yoga p.499 http://tinyurl.com/6xndt > > > > "If the teaching falls on a qualified heart, it expands in that > > intelligence. It does not stay in the unqualified heart." >
> Bob, > > Perhaps you should tell the folks who maintain > http://www.tm.org that they should update their > pages with this new information. Just to help out, > I have placed a few of the quotes that need editing > below, with the necessary changes in bold (or inside > asterisks or both, depending on your email reader): > > *Almost* anyone can practice the technique success- > fullymore than six million people have learned > worldwide. If you can think a thought, *and are > qualified*, you can practice the Transcendental > Meditation technique. ******* Anyone can learn TM, but TM is a seed (and, in fact, the TM mantras are "bija," Sanskrit for "seed," mantras) which needs receptive soil to grow in. This paradigm is given its classic expression by Jesus in his Parable of the Sower referenced below. After many lifetimes, people finally get fed up with the stupidity and nastiness of ignorant life and become receptive to wisdom (enough to withstand the stress of an ignorant environment which "choke the word") -- when they are receptive enough, they get on the road to enlightenment and begin to live the bliss that is everyone's birthright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Sower Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred. And he said unto them, He that has ears to hear, let him hear. The synoptics then relate: And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
