--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 28, 2006, at 10:50 AM, jim_flanegin wrote: > > > Dude, you've never even *done* the flying technique! lol! > > Not only have I, I was a successful hopper. > > > What you > > have written has nothing specific to do with the flying sutra. > > Pranayama!? That is just absurd- I did pranayama before meditation > > for years prior to meditation and never a hint of hopping or > > movement. > > Pranayama in it's deeper sense is a yama or pause--a gap--in the > breath, that often coincides with Pure Consciousness. If this gap > does not occur, even briefly in a flash, the prana can never have the > door it needs to "hop".
So it is "prana" that is hopping, rather than the body? The prana is what is important rather than pure consciousness? YFers hopping about stabilizes prana but doesn't stabilize pure consciousness? Where's the research on breath suspension using Buddhist meditation techniques, BTW?
