> > Yeah, compared to S.N. Goenka, the Marshy is a > > sheer genius at meditation! There's a lot of > > difference between transcendental meditation > > and mood-making with concentration on various > > human body parts. > > Vaj wrote: > Similar techniques are found in the Shankaracharya > Advaita tradition. They can also be found in > Patanjali, the Shaiva tantras and the Puranas! > They are also taught in the mantra traditions of > Hindu tantrism. > So, we are agreed - TM is very similar to the Adwaita meditation of the Shankaracharya, Patanjali, and in the Indian Tantras and Purana. I always thought so - thanks for providing this information. So, the Shankaracharya, Patanjali, and the Indian Tantriks all practiced TM.
But it's a fact that there's no 'vipassana' in the Buddhist or Hindu scriptures. Apparently the Buddha practiced TM or dhyana or something similar - not some kind of dualistic 'mindfullness' mind control invented by the Theravadins. > It also appears you never learned the TM checking > procedure. > Sure I did - in fact, I helped Charles Lutes and the Marshy compose the 'checking points'. I've been a TM Spiritual Guide for over forty years. > The Marshy had a great beard and looked great in > expensive silk, > He sure did! The Marshy looked like the real thing. If a yogi lives in the Himalayas, comes out of the Himalayas, and looks like a Himalayan Yogi, then he probably IS a Himalayan Yogi of some kind. > but IMO he sucked as yogi. > But you probably spent, what, less than a minute or two, with the Yogi face-to-face, and you've probably never been inside the Yogi's bedroom or sat outside his door. That's not very impressive, Vaj. You've probably never been on a TTC, a CCP, or an AT. > Why else would someone with "yogi" added onto > their name have a gym teacher design their > hatha-yoga asanas? > Most gym teachers in India are experts at hatha-yoga. And there must be thousands of hatha-yoga gym teachers all over India. According to my sources, B.K.S. Iyenger used to teach hatha-yoga in a gym. > Pretty silly Willy. Pretty silly. > Maybe you're the silly one, after reading your comment about the gym teacher. LOL! In many cases I'd rather learn hath-yoga from a gym teacher instead of some crabby old hermit in the Upper Kashi who only speaks Hindi. > Just because someone dresses like a saint doesn't > make them one and just because someone > self-proclaims themselves a yogi doesn't make > them one. > Do all Indian 'saints' wear dhotis - maybe so. But I knew an Indian saint that only wore a loin cloth, who taught hatha-yoga in a big gym in downtown Poona. > Nor does fooling Paul McCartney, Ringo and > Donovan. > Maybe so, but the Marshy also 'fooled around' with the saint, Swami Brahmanand Saraswati, for over thirteen years. He also fooled around with Swami Laksmanjoo, the famous Kashmiri Tantric; not to mention the Sri Anandamayima and the current Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath. > Heck, I thought Ringo was smarter than that! > Ringo was smart enough to go to the Marshy's yoga camp!
