--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Mar 1, 2008, at 2:29 PM, sparaig wrote:
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> > > Not really. Think of it as test-driving samadhi in the virtual world
> > > of your own sleep/holodeck. The parallels are really too significant
> > > for any yogi to
On Mar 1, 2008, at 2:29 PM, sparaig wrote:
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> Not really. Think of it as test-driving samadhi in the virtual world
> of your own sleep/holodeck. The parallels are really too significant
> for any yogi to ignore (thus the importance of such practices in
> Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, etc).
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Feb 26, 2008, at 3:14 PM, sparaig wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
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> > > On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
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> > > > > Though this way of understanding dreamles
When my mom was dying, I told her, "Listen, when you
die, you might not know it, so here's the sign. When
I light two candles at either side of your head then
you can feel free to go where your heart takes you."
I can relate to people who were feeling that MMY was
right there with them after he
--- Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had noticed that at the instant of falling asleep,
> that thoughts
> became less frequent, discontiguous and random - - -
> so I will
> occaisionally reproduce that to encourage sleep.
Angela writes:
Yeah, I can enter that state at will also. I think
you
Angela writes snipped:
Really good description. When witnessing sleep, you
can sometimes see the moment when the body drifts from
waking into sleeping, and you can feel "surprised" at
some distance from it all that there is hardly any
difference.
And the "surprise" contains the further notion th
On Feb 26, 2008, at 3:14 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
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> > > Though this way of understanding dreamless sleep seems very
> > foreign to
> > > Western thinking, the Upanishads go even
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
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> > > Though this way of understanding dreamless sleep seems very
> > foreign to
> > > Western thinking, the Upanishads go even further. They describe a
> > > fourth state
Yeah, I can enter that state at will also. I think
you can control the mechanism that generates the
random thoughts and turn to that directly.
--- Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had noticed that at the instant of falling asleep,
> that thoughts
> became less frequent, discontiguous and
On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Larry wrote:
I had noticed that at the instant of falling asleep, that thoughts
became less frequent, discontiguous and random - - - so I will
occaisionally reproduce that to encourage sleep.
For example . . .
popcorn . . .
scuba diving
large firm breasts,
t
I had noticed that at the instant of falling asleep, that thoughts
became less frequent, discontiguous and random - - - so I will
occaisionally reproduce that to encourage sleep.
For example . . .
popcorn . . .
scuba diving
large firm breasts,
tractor seat
cozy
horse . . .
after a brief
And the "surprise" contains the further notion that if
there is hardly any difference between deep sleep and
waking, then how much difference can there really be
between life and death.
--- Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Feb 26, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Angela Mailander
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> > Really
On Feb 26, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Angela Mailander wrote:
Really good description. When witnessing sleep, you
can sometimes see the moment when the body drifts from
waking into sleeping, and you can feel "surprised" at
some distance from it all that there is hardly any
difference.
Yes! Nice. I l
On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
> Though this way of understanding dreamless sleep seems very
foreign to
> Western thinking, the Upanishads go even further. They describe a
> fourth state. It is still more advanced than the third. It is what
> results when the expanded consciou
Really good description. When witnessing sleep, you
can sometimes see the moment when the body drifts from
waking into sleeping, and you can feel "surprised" at
some distance from it all that there is hardly any
difference.
--- Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a seamless thread of continuit
a seamless thread of continuity - imagine being inside a hollow
sphere, and everything is "projected" on the inside surface,
everything = sleeping, dreaming and waking. Everything is the same
distance from self.
witnessing is the ego getting a taste of self and thinking it might
just survive this
Vaj,
The below doesn't seem to have enough definitional clarity -- the
meanings of words are kinda fuzzy. My quibbles below.
Edg
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> From "Yoga an Psychotherapy, The Evolution of Consciousness"
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> "The Mandukya Upanishad sa
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