--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2011, at 5:11 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > >> That you didn't reach that depth and clarity and length > >> of time of transcending when you were practicing TM > >> doesn't mean, as you keep claiming, that TM *cannot* > >> lead to such experience. > > > > Nor does it need to. > > > > My transcending time is better than yours is not integral > > to TM-theory in the first place. > > Well it would mean some are reaching the "bottom" of the > ocean (TC) in the bubble diagram, and others are only > 'blanking out' at one of the subtle waves towards the > bottom, in a laya (Non-TC).
Um, no, it wouldn't. What it means is that any degree of transcending (in the sense of increasing mental quietness) results in the release of stress, even if one never reaches TC-by-itself, or if one experiences TC-by-itself only in short dips. "Blanking out" is a red herring, a non sequitur (almost certainly deliberate, intended by Vaj to introduce confusion). Lawson is entirely correct. I'd considered making this same point myself, but I figured he was sure to pop in and make it somewhere along the line.
