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Naw, mere cessation won't cut it. Sure way to get rebirth in a formless realm. ----Try it before you knock it. Cessation of the mind doesn't mean cessation of awareness. Nor does it mean thoughtlessness. In the state of yoga is sattva which is speedier and better organized than choppy incoherent thought. It's cessation of the vrittis or tendencies not some formless death-like trance or something. I have said before and will say again that even those westerners who do manage to go into samadhi for even a few hours a day, they still can't do it for much longer than that. The formless realm wouldn't appeal to most of them. The odds are about the same as getting gangrene from an antbite, if you're a Westerner. If you're in samadhi in activity then you get a lot more return on your sensory input. Furthermore, the only formless realm is the forced realm of concentrating against thought. That is not the same as the cessation of yoga in kaivalya, or in nirbeej samadhi, or the cessation of the mind in nirvana. Besides, the whole notion of beinng reborn in a formless realm is a joke because we really are formless anyway. On the inside. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'
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