[FairfieldLife] Re: 2016 Word of the Year: Xenophobia
FW: from e-mail it is said, You know the word 'xeno' in Greek means 'stranger' or 'alien'. As I recall, not sharing the same values and cultural habits as you was rather annoying to you, and I was ejected from the community, without so much as a reason other than the subterfuge of the Yahoo guidelines. I would say you are xenophobic in that non-meditators, or meditators of a different ilk, or those sharing different ideas about how to explain and understand meditation that differ from the TM model of experience, or perhaps the Quaker model of experience results in discomfort. There are many successful models of spiritual growth, and quite a few nonsensical ones. Assimilation of different values is not necessarily an easy thing, particularly if those values differ strongly from our own. While I spent some years in the TM movement, I never fully assimilated all its ideas and technology, certain things worked for me, other things did not. It has always been a delicate dance, finding what brought progress and what did not. Progress does not occur on the basis of mere belief — mere belief is very common in spiritual circles — but on definite results. The Hindu story of using a thorn to remove a thorn means the belief that one attaches to that gets you going on a spiritual journey is really a kind of illusion that replaces the illusions of one's former life. But it is still the same illusion in another form. In an ideal situation, that second illusion, the thorn that removes a thorn will, on its own, fall away if the spiritual discipline is able to complete the journey. That leaves one free of encumbrances in the mind by which to judge what happens in the world, one just experiences what happens without judgement. Untoward attachments that might still form are much easier to disentangle from. If you walk through the forest there are still things that can harm, wolves, snakes, and in places lions and tigers and bears, and while it is said that an enlightened man walking in such places is free of harm, it is his awareness that is free from harm. The body is still soft, pliable, and delicate. The story of the Mahabharata shows that a simple disagreement can lead to horrendous carnage and loss because people cannot see through the model of reality they have in their heads. The model of reality is not the reality, it stands in stead of the reality as a way to navigate it, but it is not true, it is at best a rough approximation, a rough representation of reality. The real difficulties of life is not reality, but logically inconsistent models of reality in our heads that clash needlessly. The real strangeness and alien character of others is that strange model of how things are in their head compared to yours. Everyone thinks what they think is true and real. And that is the defect of human character and human knowledge that enlightenment will correct, given the chance. When that happens you are left without any clear doctrine about what to believe, because belief is unnecessary if one is experiencing everything directly without that mental model interfering. That does not mean however that one is not faced with others for whom the mental machinery in their head is still churning out its illusory image of the world on a daily basis, and one needs watch out for that. But we always have to be aware, if it is our own mind that is the one that is deluded. The awareness that this is still possible may help keep us on guard against potential danger, even from our own mind. Regards, Xenophaneros Anartaxius ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : And, something should be done about ‘those people’, those xenophobic people? Meditation can be helpful to people suffering from fear and anxiety. = Some lack of proper upbringing and some lack of effective spiritual practice like effective meditation practice evidently could relate to these underpinnings of xenophobia. Therefore, this Holiday season, to more effectively fight and combat social fear and anxiety please give liberally to the David Lynch Foundation programs to help curb xenophobic tendencies tearing at society. QED ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : http://blog.dictionary.com/xenophobia/?param=DcomSERP Xenophobia is the fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity. Xenophobia can also be exhibited in the form of an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" in which a culture is ascribed "an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality". SOURCE >>> WIKIPEDIA
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[FairfieldLife] Re: 2016 Word of the Year: Xenophobia
And, something should be done about ‘those people’, those xenophobic people? Meditation can be helpful to people suffering from fear and anxiety. = Some lack of proper upbringing and some lack of effective spiritual practice like effective meditation practice evidently could relate to these underpinnings of xenophobia. Therefore, this Holiday season, to more effectively fight and combat social fear and anxiety please give liberally to the David Lynch Foundation programs to help curb xenophobic tendencies tearing at society. QED ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : http://blog.dictionary.com/xenophobia/?param=DcomSERP Xenophobia is the fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity. Xenophobia can also be exhibited in the form of an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" in which a culture is ascribed "an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality". SOURCE >>> WIKIPEDIA
[FairfieldLife] 2016 Word of the Year: Xenophobia
http://blog.dictionary.com/xenophobia/?param=DcomSERP Xenophobia is the fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity. Xenophobia can also be exhibited in the form of an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" in which a culture is ascribed "an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality".SOURCE >>> WIKIPEDIA
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation
In Transcendentalism, this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus Christ "Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of natural sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as the practical role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is compelling in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's articulation there is the evident science of collective practice of meditation on the whole. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The evidence for the Maharishi Effect continues to mount up. Another compelling, new study came out in February of this year, again based on publicly available statistics. This is a scientific breakthrough that outstrips all others in its power to do good for ourselves, our nation, and our world. Jai Guru Dev Raja John Hagelin ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : When a person waters the root of life, when they begin to experience the transcendental field of their own existence, which is the treasure house of inexhaustible energy, and intelligence, and harmony and bliss then that as we know gets infused into their lives and their lives become so much better. They evolve, they grow, and they start to live in such a way that automatically their actions are in harmony with the laws of nature. "The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group meditation," ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : " Meditators notice that even in a group of two there is a greater settling of the mind, and this effect grows in accordance with how many people gather, says Colin. "Regular meditators have reported much stronger experiences of silence and bliss than they normally experience alone or in their usual groups of 2050 people. ..The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group meditation," -explains TM teacher, Colin Beckley ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Meissner-like Effect of Collective Meditation.. As early as, “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM technique.” Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of City Life Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., West Germany, MERU Press, 1976 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yep, group meditations were always used as part of the mix but you are right as to its relative promotion in the earlier ™ movement. Group meditations clearly were an activating aspect for meditators in coming along in a deepening experience with meditating. As I look around now for teachings that speak to the value of meditating in groups the quotes that I do readily find are from other sages about the spiritual practice of group meditation as an adjunct to individual or isolated practice. Maharishi evidently employed the value of collective meditation practice but I am not finding earlier comments from Maharishi related to simple group meditation of the pre-sidhis ™ movement before the TMO went Sidhis-centric. He probably did speak to it, like at the time of calling meditators together during the Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union. .. The quote below concerned a special event in which "The saints and Mahatmas of Uttarakhand" gathered together. This does not address the claim that there is some special value to ordinary lay meditators practicing in groups in golden domes or elsewhere. I was very much involved in the TM movement for several years in the mid-1970s and I do not recall a single instance in which any special value was placed on group meditations. The emphasis was always on rounding in the privacy of your own room. I must have watched several hundred video tapes of MMY and I do not recall a single one in which he spoke about this. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : He was employing group meditation as part of the mix from early on in his teaching. The call for meditators to come together [ C
