--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> > >
> > > MMY's own meta-explanation for why he even bothers to
> > > present a theory is because the intellect has a need to
> > > explain things, that's all.
> >
> > One could also explain it as, "In the absence of the
> > promised results ("5-7 years to enlightenment"),
> > giving people theory after theory to hang onto
> > keeps them from paying too much attention to all
> > the broken promises." :-)
> >
>
> Heh. Within a few weeks of learning TM I was having enlightenment
experiences. Had I a
> more structured religious tradition, I might not have indulged in
all the interesting side-
> trips I did when I was young, but on the other hand, had my father
not gone off with the
> obvious (in hindsight) intent of killing himself by exposure on a
fishing trip, I might have
> had less stress in my life and wouldn't have indulged in self-
destructive behavior myself.
>
> Either way, for ME, enlightenment was obviously occuring within a
few weeks and months
> of my starting TM. Witnessing sleep, dreaming and so on was
starting to occur, etc.
>
> However, during the week that my Mother drove off to retrieve my
Father from the hospital
> he'd been taken to when hikers discovered him in his drunken stupor
that he'd imposed
> on himself many miles from civilization, which lead to a
week's "exposure to the
> elements," I managed to contract a case of mono that nearly killed
me.
>
> Between the stress of recovering from mono (epstein-barr syndrome
seemed a likely
> explanation for how weak I was ever-after), and the stress of
watching my father kill
> himself by milimeters after his failed attempt to kill himself by
inches, I pretty much lost
> any symptoms of CC for decades. I Continued TM, however, since
there was an obvious
> feeling of "not-quite-as-bad" afterwards.
>
> My point is simply: you have no idea why people didn't get to
enlightenment in 5-7 years.
> I've met high school kids from MSAE who appear to be durned close
themselves, and I've
> heard of others from MSAE who went off the deep end.
>
> For some reason. MMY probably DID expect people to get enlightened
faster than they did.
> This makes his time-line mistaken, but while SOME people got upset
at the Perfect Master
> not being correct to the month, others simply slogged ahead,
getting whatever benefits we
> got...
>
> ...and we didn't need an "explanation" to excuse our decision to
continue.
>
Thanks for the above;
Just to add to this a bit, I would think that these days, people
would have the possibility of gaining enlightenment much faster...
As more and more long term meditators, baby-boomer generation, added
to the ever increasing desire for authenticity of the younger
generation;
Enlightenment should become a much more natural thing, understood,
much more than was possible, only a few years ago.
R.G.
