--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard M" <compost1uk@> wrote: > > On one level, the fact of human awareness is the most amazing miracle of > life. On another level I find a fixation on this awareness without any object > of attention to be a boring self obliterating buzz that wastes time better > spent focusing that attention elsewhere during my short life. Spending life > focused on this aspect of our minds reminds me of a child playing with its > toes in blissful ignorance that when he or she grow up they will discover the > ability to express themselves in art. IMO that is a much more worthy pursuit > than toe wiggling absorption. (Not that there is anything wrong with that!)
Well, I know plenty of people who purport to practice TM who DO obsess about "pure awareness" but that isn't what I was when I learned TM, nor what MMY taught int he SCI course. Lawson