--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:29 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> 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? > > No it is not prana "hopping", it's the side effect of prana entering > the muladhara-chakra and what happens when it "touches" apana- vayu. > That's all. > > That's not to say that prana is not important... > > > > > Where's the research on breath suspension using Buddhist meditation > > techniques, BTW? > > > Was I supposed to be looking for some?
Lawson's asked you numerous times, and you've evaded the question each time. > A teacher of mine did some casual experiment though That's all, a casual experiment?? After you've been boasting about research on Buddhist meditation techniques forever? > and I was impressed. In the longer "pauses" it's not so > much a "pause" as it is a very, very long in and out-breath. Ooopsie. Or maybe it wasn't even a casual experiment by a friend of yours. Hilarious. You forgot where you read about this. It's one of the findings of the research on breath suspension during TM. Lawson has mentioned it several times. No wonder you haven't given Lawson any cites.
