hi :) 2012/6/9 Jason <jedi_sp...@yahoo.com>
> ** > > > > > Are you the old 'akashya_108' or 'zoran kneta'? > > > --- iranitea <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > I think it's fair to introduce myself, well as you can probably see from > my handle, I use an anonymous one. Irani tea or chai is a tea from > Hyderabad, (I actually didn't know till I looked it up yesterday. But I > know it from drinking, hehe.) I do this for several reasons, one is that I > want to simply be free to say what I want to say, but personally respecting > the choices of close friends and not hurting them. Another one is, that I > do not want to be associated with certain topics, as has happened in the > past. One third, not less important is, to not be put into a box; like he > is pro-TM, he is anti-TM, he is a TBB etc. So, I also believe in > reincarnation, not just in the usual sense of the word, but also on > Internet forums. > > > > So I am not new here, some of you I know for a long time. To break > through my policy a bit, I will tell you a bit of what I have done in the > past. In one incarnation I created this video > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg > > I think most of you have already seen it, it came out of a dialog, we > had at the time, centering around something Buck brought up. It was already > online before, with 3000 hits, and has now again over 400, you may just > look at it again, to give it another boost. > > > > At a later incarnation I have discussed various topics with some people, > trying to address typical TM-hook-ups, as the nature of transcendence, hazy > vs. real, and the roots of TM in traditional japa, and why TM is not in any > way more special. I have done so to understand the (con)text that surrounds > TM and its own dynamic. > > > > In my previous incarnation, I was shocked to notice, how long term > TM-ers, who profess to be experts on TM in many ways, are actually lacking > any basic sense of discrimination. Something that usually comes only by > having actual *life* experiences with people, which is something people > have got who paid their dues in the movement, or any other spiritual > surrounding for a longer time. > > > > Not having experienced oneself directly the dangers that come with > extended meditations, like virtually going crazy, you would have known, if > you had any experience in real life in similar situations, when for example > friends are involved. There would be signs, red flags, one notices in > people, and any person with a realistic, down to earth sense would know. > > > > This is actually the lack, when only discussing in Internet forums, and > drawing most information from there, than from actual places and people, or > simply watching teachers just giving a 3 days checking, without sitting > through the various problems that may actually come up at these. > > > > So, in a way, I feel like a fresh white paper, no need of having to > continue any old quibbles. OTOH, I am not afraid either, not of anybody > here, I think I have a clear stand. > > > > >
