--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > Imagine my surprise then when in Fiuggi I had me a Class A > awakening experience. One of my one-hour meditations one > morning turned into a six-hour one. And when I opened my > eyes, the transcendence (thoughtless samadhi) I had been > experiencing for those six hours didn't go away. I > got dressed and walked to dinner, and it still didn't go > away. It didn't go away for two weeks. Classic MMY > description of CC. I thought I was home free. Game over. > Enlightened. > > And then it went away. To this day this is probably the > spiritual experience I am most thankful for. That was a > wake-up call for me, spiritually. It taught me that many > of my assumptions about this whole "enlightenment" thang > were false, and that maybe I ought to go back to the > drawing board with some of them.
IOW, you thought perhaps you should go back to what you'd been taught by MMY? Standard Disclaimer: I don't know what he taught his teachers. But the rank-and-file were taught that temporary experiences of CC (called "witnessing") and even GC and UC were to be expected prior to any of these states becoming permanent.
