--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2005, at 10:02 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On Jun 25, 2005, at 8:20 PM, sparaig wrote: > >> > >>> --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On Jun 25, 2005, at 4:06 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Vaj, reading over your words, you make TM sound so difficult, > >>>>> arduous even, if done correctly. I initially understood it to > > be a > >>>>> stress release technique, and still do it as such. I had a job > >>>>> recently where I awakened at 4:30am for a 60 mile commute. I > > was > >>>>> always exhausted on my return each day and religiously fell > > asleep > >>>>> during every evening meditation. > >>>> > >>>> Wasn't talking about TM but about a similar meditation practice > > that > >>>> goes about 5 stages beyond TM-style meditation. > >>> > >>> > >>> Ah, I see. So in its beginning stages, its easy, but in the more > >>> advanced stages, it gets difficult? > >> > >> Not quite that simple :-) In the final stages it is possible to > >> "transcend" for four hours at a time, effortlessly. One sits down, > >> decides how long they will meditate and finishes when they intend > > to. > > > > sounds very blissful, more so than I can possibly imagine. But why > > would you want to do that? What is the motivation, the benefit? That > > I don't get. > > Once one finally attains this there is rather dramatic shift in the > nervous system. Physical bliss and mental bliss do arise, but once that > rapture fades then total stability can arise. Even befor ethis though > one will have attained taming and pacification of the mind, this has a > great benefit to the environment, as Patanjali notes. We talked about > this before when we talked about Thurman's _Inner Revolution_. > > A noticeable benefit will be that entire complexes of negative thought > and destructive emotion are simply gone. The emotional afflictions will > begin to dissolve. Meditation on the Clear light becomes much easier. > There would be a long list of benefits if you wanted to list such > things but really gaining the ability to pacify and tame the minds of > others is probably the finest thing.
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