--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Patrick Gillam > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:26 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purity of the teaching (was Honest answers) > > > L B Shriver wrote: > > > > The Knowledge have actually been compromised > > by the University. For example, the principle of > > innocence in practice-> absolutely foundational > > as far as I'm concerned-was completely trashed > > by the practice of grading students on their > > performance in the Domes, where they are > > observed by faculty and accorded a performance > > rating based on how much they hop. Does anyone > > seriously believe that a student who hasn't hopped > > until the last minute of the session won't jump > > up and down once or twice for the sake of the grade? > > When I attended a reunion in 1999, I sat with the > 5-minute flyers near the door. All those kids slept > through the entire program, with no pretense of > meditating or doing anything else. I wondered if > they were recruited in one of the programs to get > foreign students, for they were all non-Anglo and > obviously had no interest in meditation. I expect that > program is no more. > > - Patrick Gillam > > ----To join student purusha you had to be actively hopping. Of course you > also had to be actively hopping to move your 'flying time' up every six months. So I talked myself into flying. I had been one of the non flyers. Then on student purusha you could automatically move up to the fifteen minute section and then advance your time five minutes every month so that after three months I was sitting with the 30 mintue flying guys. > > After I left MIU I decided there was no connection between hopping and > levitating so I never did it again. How can bouncing help one stabilize in mid air? I don't see the connection.
Well, you wouldn't (see the connection). I mean, "seeing the connection" is pretty advanced stuff --the equivalent of floating during Yogic Flying, I suspect. 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/
