--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Tom Traynor wrote: > > > > Bottom line is that stuff still happens but it > > > no longer sticks or really matters. > > Kenneth Hassman writes: > > > Doesn't this happen naturally as one gets older anyway? ... > > Many in this age bracket, meditators or not, seem to > > come to this kind of understanding and my understanding > > of this is that at some point, maybe mid 50s its a natural shift. > > I've read this too; specifically, that seniors score > higher on tests of self actualization. > > Remember the old TM charts on self-actualization? > The way I interpreted it all was this way:
The nature > of life is to grow, and TM hastens growth, hence, > TMers take less time to grow to a point they'd reach > eventually without TM. > > Bobananda, did I get that right? > > - Patrick Gillam ******** Ha, ha -- not at all, blood...people who don't transcend the stupidity of the mind (a filter for the unlimited bliss consciousness) can flounder around in the mud for a long, long, time...the nature of life is to grow, but those who don't choose to go along with growth suffer, and that can go on for a long time until people get tired of suffering, and become receptive to wisdom: "For, such is the nature of consciousness: whatever it conceives itself to be, whether real or imaginary, that it becomes, apparently having abandoned its own nature." from p. 424, "Vasistha's Yoga," SUNY Press, 1993 -- available from 21st Century Books: http://tinyurl.com/6xndt To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
