There was a report on FFL about an Indian ayurvedic doctor who visited
and offered to teach correct meditation. He maintained that TM was too
"shotgun" and there were better ways using ayurveda to teach
meditation. I've been saying this for years as the TM technique is
pretty much for pitta or rajasic types. That might mean if you're a bit
kapha TM might be fattening. Some of the Indian gurus will observe a
person for several days and give a mantra appropriate for their type.
On 09/23/2015 10:43 AM, olliesed...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
That covers a lot of ground.:-) I agree that TM is a mechanical means
to liberation, through the knowledge of the Veda, and that it can work
as described. It is basically a tool for us to get out of the dullness
you mentioned, and get things moving again - we are at our core,
transcendental beings and might as well get on with it. I also see
Maharishi as a great messenger, responding to the need of the times,
to bring out the knowledge that he did, though I have no need to
revere him as a personality.
As for TM being for everyone, it doesn't appear to be. Many who
learned in the past have now set it aside. The intellectual case could
be made certainly that it is a benefit for everyone, but each of us
makes up our minds differently, and we are often drawn to spiritual
practices for karmic reasons, in addition to a well reasoned approach.
Simply having the opportunity to find a teacher and learn TM is
enough, imo, and that is now well established globally.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <ryandave177@...> wrote :
You asked: what are the 3 most important ideas in my book:
A PIRATE'S CALL TO MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI; GENIUS IS EASY, BEHAVIOR'S
A MESS
#1. The most important idea to me in my book came, after I finished
writing it, as I witnessed what I wrote.
I am still learning what I wrote, as I read it again and again.
In chapter 5, titled: MAHARISHI'S GIFT.
In so many words, Maharishi had one job...to inform, there lies
within: your potential, unrealized intelligence and joy. Maharishi
provided us with a key to unlock the pathway to what we already own:
our birthright.
So many people in the world believe or unconsciously assume this
knowledge of life, the vedas, the meditation process, all this is
given, from Maharishi. Yes... Maharishi has provided us with the key
to turn on the veh! icle. Who owns the vehicle?...we all do. Knowledge
is structured in consciousness, we are remembering and tapping into
what we already possess.
If people really understood this reality, they wouldn't say, nah, not
interested, meditation is not my style. People would line up at age 10
to receive their key to unlock their God given potential as human beings.
This is not Maharishi's knowledge, it is the knowledge of life. Thank
God, Maharishi has enough patience and heart to pursue the work.
#2. That genius seeps through cracks of dullness. In an instant,
brilliance of mind may surface an idiot of sorts. That is my
subjective experience: as dull as I am, I am genius in moments as it
comes without effort.
Not a lifetime of meditation, an instant, it arrives and one realizes,
I am more than what I thought, was capable.
#3. That we drag old thought through fresh fields of lost wonder.
Starting with chapter 3: realizing that habits and conditions of
mind, filter out, our love of life. Meditation is a tool for a
freshening sense.