>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002"
> <markmeredith@> wrote:
> >
> > "Not digging in the dirt" is the rationale used by many sidhas here
> > when they move into a S-ved home as a way of solving their marital
> > communication problems, or do a yagya as a way to treat their
> > chronic depression or OCD, or spend half their waking life
> > meditating trying to get over some early life emotional pain.
> >
> > I agree there's a severe limit to the progress that can be made
> > with talk therapy that focuses on intellectual analysis of past
> > hurts. But the fact remains that you can't transcend your way
> > out of deep emotional pain, you have to go through it...
>
> Mark, it's the *absolutism* of statements like this that
> I'm commenting on. What you say in the last sentence
> above is SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
>
> I and many of my friends have had severe emotional pain
> and trauma just fucking GO AWAY as a result of spiritual
> sadhana that did not require us to focus on it or "go
> through it." Leave some room in your pronouncements for
> other possibilities, eh? :-)
>
> I am *NOT* saying that I don't think dealing with emotional
> issues is not a good thing for some people if they swing
> that way. But is it the ONLY way such issues can be
> resolved? No way.
>
OK, absolutism is wrong -- I'm used to dealing with the opposite
absolutism here where there are some people who view marriage
counselors the way baptists view pagan priestesses. Also, I see your
term "spiritual sadhana" as much broader than just tm transcending and
thus more likely to be effective with emotional stuff.
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