--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Jun 26, 2005, at 9:59 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Wow, I never heard that the absence of thoughts > > > > > > in TM indicates an absence of "progress." Is > > > > > > that something MMY says that I've somehow > > > > managed > > > > > > to miss? > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, whatever happened to the gap gets bigger and > > > > bigger? > > > > > > > > Ask Barry; he's a former TM teacher. Maybe > > > > that's what he taught his students. Sure is > > > > news to me. > > > > > > What in the hell is all this distorted TM "teaching"? > > > Are you guys that are spouting this TM teachers? > > > Because MMY never, ever mentioned this stuff in the > > > context of explaining experiences during meditation. > > > > > yeah, I don't remember a word of it either, and that's after > > hundreds of hours of tapes, reading his books, etc. > > From message 59068 from Barry (TurquoiseB): > > "Having practiced both styles of meditation, I can > attest to the fact that using certain styles of focused > or concentrative meditation, one can pretty much enter > samadhi at will and have it last for twenty minutes, > an hour, or several hours, with no thoughts present. > For the dyed-in-the-wool TMer, convinced that the > absence of thoughts indicates an absence of 'progress,' > this might not be an admirable thing...." > > Actually, this post from Barry (a former TM > teacher) was in response to a post of yours, > Jim.
yeah but I never said what he is alluding to, that an absence of thoughts is indicative of a lack of progress during TM. I'm not sure where he got the idea, but it wasn't from me. In my reply above I was just agreeing with peter that I've not heard MMY say anything regarding this either. 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/
