If you dwell on it then the feeling may stress you. People who have been practicing sadhana for a while (doesn't have to be TM) will witness the event with no emotional attachment. Certainly we can "feel" for the families and parents but we won't be obsessed with it nor will we be stressed by it.
On 12/15/2012 02:16 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: > I was wondering if you'd let loose with and describe a TM concept for me, the > non-TM'er of the group. This is not a very descriptive explanation. Yes, I > feel deeply for those families that lost children...it's literally painful > for me. Is feeling deeply considered "stress?" > > > >> ________________________________ >> From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> >> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:01 PM >> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home >> >> >> >> If you had learned TM you would know what that means. It was an >> expression that Maharishi used how one experiences stress as they >> progress towards enlightenment. For the unenlightened it is a "line in >> cement" not dirt. IOW, you will be more effected by stress. Once >> meditating and progressing towards enlightenment stress becomes more a >> "line on water." In moksha it becomes "a line in air." >> >> For some of us many events even before TM were "line on water". >> >> For me: >> Cuban Missile Crisis >> JFK Assassination >> >> On 12/15/2012 01:45 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: >>> How do you define "line on water" and "line on air" and is there a "line on >>> dirt?" >>> >>> >>> >>>> ________________________________ >>>> From: Mike Dixon <mdixon.6...@yahoo.com> >>>> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> >>>> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:30 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hey, what do you expect? We live in a touchy-feely society. If our talking >>>> heads don't express an abundance of regret/remorse-fullness, they are >>>> thought to be crude and insensitive. They all have to out-perform their >>>> counter parts.Drama sells. >>>> >>>> >>>> From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> >>>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >>>> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:54 PM >>>> Subject: [FairfieldLife] America Obsesses and Goes Home >>>> >>>> >>>> Aren't you glad you learned meditation? The rest of the country gets >>>> all emotionally hung up on the shooting yesterday while for us it is >>>> "line on water." So we are treated to the bleating of talking heads and >>>> everyones opinion. Liberals call for more gun laws and conservative >>>> point out it was a mental health issue. I just think it is a sign of >>>> the times. America doesn't work anymore in more ways than one so expect >>>> more of this and worse. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> >>
