Tolle never did TM that I know of - by his own account he was mega-stressed out will he spontaneously leaped into a state of enlightenment of some kind - thanks for the idea of me coming back to the Dome - but I 'spect The Sandman done put some kind-a X mark agin my name in the old MIU books.
As to the sleepers in the Dome - it may be from staying up late and drinkin' likker that does it - bourbon probably - reminds me of when I was at MIU 1985-1987 - there were a couple guys living on campus, one a student and one on staff that were dealing pot out of their rooms - I couldn't fathom it myself but they did it. But sincerely thanks for the thought, I appreciate it. And I thought Wednesdays were for not saying anything rough about another poster or in response to one of the posters on FFL? In which case Dome snoozers are fair game (unless some of them post on here) ________________________________ From: Buck <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 9:43 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Rumors Jack, actually your experience with 'Presence' and Eckhart Tolle's The Power of NOW is also one of those correct experiences in TM meditation. It just wasn't said exactly that way. Maharishi proly could have said it better when he standardized the instruction and been more helpful in the long-run to a lot of people in their practice. The waking down folks, AdyaShanti and Eckhart did a lot to just bring this up in the intervening years. But where you are at is where a lot of folks sit in experience with their practice and life in Fairfield now too. Someone in my household just recently got a dvd from netflix of Eckhart Tolle doing a 'Power of Now' talk in 2001. It was really a pretty good checking of experience that could be helpful to a lot of meditators and that dvd was 2001. Tolle was an old TM'er wasn't he? He has had quite an impact on popular spirituality. You'd be welcomed back in the Dome as a powerful TM meditator. You could be very helpful joining the large group, sort of like when people actually sit up and meditate with some amount of discipline instead of going in there, reclining and zoning out. Now if that isn't a bloody waste of everyone's time, but then it is still positive-Wednesday here on FFL so I won't go in to what I think now about people who lay back and sleep for the whole time in meditation in the Dome. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > I take that as a compliment rather than an insult - for whatever its worth I > realized through experience that other techniques are just a valuable for > progress on the spiritual path as the TM mantras, thus I expanded my ability > to experience the Absolute in my physiology. What I used to experience solely > in TM meditation I began, while exclusively still doing only TM as my sole > practice, in activity as well. Meaning I felt the same feelings and energy in > my body and around my body when in activity that I had begun to feel when > transcending during TM practice. > > After I began other meditation techniques and doing other things like, say, > Holotropic breathwork, I began to feel the "lively transcendent" more often. > Upon reading Eckhart Tolle's The Power of NOW, this experience began to grow > more frequent. As things are now, to feel what I used to feel only in the > deepest TM meditations I only need close my eyes and relax for a few seconds. > > Now the feeling of Divine Energy or Pure Awareness is my experience about 70 > - 75% of the time. Relaxing my awareness makes the experience much more > powerful, or more intense. I still allow my personal awareness to get caught > up in egoic concerns (especially when I am trying to fix some glitch on my > computer), but the Pure Awareness is always there. > > I am happy with what my personal practice gave me, happy with what other > practices have given me and happy I came out of the illusion that TM is the > "jet plane" to enlightenment. > > So yeah, no need to get checked nor to do one practice exclusively. > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: nablusoss1008 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 1:15 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Rumors > > > Â > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@> wrote: > > > > Hilarious on 2 fronts - I don't exclusively do TM > > That certainly explains your posts here more than you would care to know. >
