On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:53 AM, sparaig wrote:
Well, you see, I think it is YOU who are missing MMY's nuances here.
Certainly stress can have good and bad qualities (eustress and
distress). However, anything that pulls one away from the quality
of functioning of the nervous system where pure
On Dec 11, 2011, at 3:04 AM, sparaig wrote:
I like to cite my old friend Anoop Chandola, who is not only a
Sanskrit/Hindu scholar, but has one very close family member who
was part of the committee who selected SBS in the first place.
Appeal to authority or argumentum ad verecundiam is a
On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:25 AM, sparaig wrote:
Eh, as I said, I have a friend who is reasonably accomplished as a
Vedic/Hindu scholar, who considers MMY to be the real deal. YMMV
of course.
You should send him a copy of David Wants to Fly. :-)
And while your at it, you should also try to
On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:10 PM, sparaig lengli...@cox.net wrote:
The current successor wasn't even at the ashram when SBS died, He was
studying with another guru.
Smart man.
It's never good to be attached.
On Dec 9, 2011, at 10:29 AM, sparaig wrote:
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On Dec 5, 2011, at 8:04 AM, seventhray1 wrote:
Oh, good. I'll just have to revise my experience so it conforms
with your analysis.
Actually we've all already been
On Dec 7, 2011, at 8:36 PM, sparaig lengli...@cox.net wrote:
Heh. MMY always portrayed himself as a reformer, so conservatives would
naturally be incensed with what he said.
Of course the real reason they were incensed was probably because he was
destroying the purity of their tradition,
On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:44 PM, sparaig wrote:
Isn't Mahesh supposed to be MMY's given first name? It's certainly
strange for a scholar posing as a neutral party to refer to a
person whom he has never met, but whom he has written formal words
about, by his first name.
If he's a decent
On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:46 PM, sparaig wrote:
That might be, but of course, this doesn't say anything about the
kids and prison inmates who learn TM en mass through the David
Lynch FOundation.
Well you'd have to do another study. But I doubt at this late date
anyone independent would be
On Dec 6, 2011, at 1:09 AM, sparaig wrote:
Because his comments are very much in line with a lot of TM
teachers I have run into over the years. He regurgitates the
Knowledge, but doesn't appear to get it.
THe whole thing in the interview about how since a given guru was
from the advaita
On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:49 PM, seventhray1 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
I think it's important to distinguish between meditation forms
that help samskaras be dissolved and those that plant sattvic seeds
in the mind to overwhelm the rajasic and tamasic
On Dec 5, 2011, at 8:04 AM, seventhray1 wrote:
Oh, good. I'll just have to revise my experience so it conforms
with your analysis.
Actually we've all already been pre-programmed to believe in the
stress release, unstressing, model is factually correct. Each time
we transcend we're
No Feste, that was not the point of what I was saying. But thanks for asking.
:-)
On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:52 PM, feste37 fest...@yahoo.com wrote:
So you're saying that TM causes people to be afraid to go outside or to be in
public? Gosh, I never knew that, and I was in the movement for
On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:33 AM, richardatrwilliamsdotus wrote:
So, you need Dana Sawyer, who never even tried TM, to
explain to you TM? You're supposed to be the spiritual
teacher! You're thinking Dana Sawyer knows anything
about the TM or the TMO? Go figure.
Prof. Sawyer was expelled from
On Dec 4, 2011, at 10:30 AM, feste37 wrote:
But it was part of what you said. (See below. I've restored your words that
you deleted.)
Here's what I said:
I regularly talk to people who will mention problems as simple as having to
alter their life because they're afraid to go outside or in
On Dec 4, 2011, at 1:42 PM, feste37 wrote:
Well, that's interesting. I never liked rounding so did as little of it as
possible. I can imagine that if people are cooped up all day doing that then
they might get a bit reclusive for a while and find it difficult to get back
into a more
Feste, even-though Vaj is a big liar he is right on some of the symptoms.
During my kundalini descension I suffered from symptoms that resemble panic
attacks. During 2 weeks in 2006 it result in massive agoraphobia for me.
Of course I was blessed enough that existence guided me and I never had
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shukra69:
this is a desperate crazy person kind
On Dec 4, 2011, at 5:50 PM, feste37 wrote:
I find this interesting but am not convinced by the idea (hardly a
psychological fact) that those who start TM constitute a certain type of
person, since such a huge variety of people have learned TM over the years.
That's true. You could easily
I feel that all recent information relating to the TMO's dark side would be
relevant, esp. material that relates to the traditional problems meditation can
cause - and the hope for relief for people suffering.
You might see the still on-going PR of the TMO as more evidence of the success
of
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