Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-28 Thread Share Long
I have heard of the Shiva Puranas from a friend who loves to browse in used bookstores and find long lost copies of Vedic literature.  She has metioned the Shiva Puranas a few times.  I've been told that Shiva is my ishta devata and that feels right to me.  When Poonjaji read the Ribhu Gita

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-28 Thread Share Long
Hmmm, I think pure awareness is thrilled with thoughts or no thoughts or even semi thoughts because all it EVER experiences is itself, but from all these different angles, so never bored.  I'm thinking that the unmanifest cannot be concentrated upon because there it is, even in what is not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-26 Thread Share Long
Very beautiful, navashok, thank you.  I love that part about renouncing the renunciation even.  I've never before heard of the Ribhu Gita.  Is it part of the Vedic literature? I don't think we really have to let go of anything.  That which is, is always letting go and holding on, That doesn't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-22 Thread Share Long
dear navashok, if you hold breath for a week, you will probably die.  Please don't.  Thank you (-: From: navashok no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 11:31 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-22 Thread Share Long
A professor at MUM once explained that as one progresses, especially from CC to GC, what happens can be described as the depth coming up to the surface of life.  So we might not feel deep, even during TM.  And we shouldn't TRY to feel deep. In a similar way it seems, with the TMSP, we more and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-19 Thread Bhairitu
On 03/19/2013 11:20 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: It turns out that the EEG pattern of long-term TMers during TM remains the same as the EEG pattern found in short-term TMers: it's simple relaxation, no matter how long you have been