--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <lengli...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote:
> Well, I know plenty of people who purport to practice TM > who DO obsess about "pure awareness" but that isn't what I was > when I learned TM, nor what MMY taught int he SCI course. > > Lawson I didn't mean thinking about it. I mean spending hours of day with your eyes closed trying to cultivate it so that there is more awareness of it during your activity as defined by Maharishi's higher states of consciousness. I am criticizing the whole enlightenment model not some person who thinks about it too much. I know what Maharishi is talking about when he describes the states of consciousness developed by regular meditation. It is cultivating those states that I am calling a waste of time comparable to spending the day stoned. Not that such experiences aren't fun or sometimes hit the spot. But as a life's pre-occupation devoting hours to cultivating them, I find them lacking. YMMV > > > > --- In [email protected], "Richard M" <compost1uk@> wrote: > > > > On one level, the fact of human awareness is the most amazing miracle of > > life. On another level I find a fixation on this awareness without any > > object of attention to be a boring self obliterating buzz that wastes time > > better spent focusing that attention elsewhere during my short life. > > Spending life focused on this aspect of our minds reminds me of a child > > playing with its toes in blissful ignorance that when he or she grow up > > they will discover the ability to express themselves in art. IMO that is a > > much more worthy pursuit than toe wiggling absorption. (Not that there is > > anything wrong with that!) > > Well, I know plenty of people who purport to practice TM > who DO obsess about "pure awareness" but that isn't what I was > when I learned TM, nor what MMY taught int he SCI course. > > Lawson >
