> > I would bet the vast majority of former TM > > folks have either gone on to other spiritual > > practices or have simply taken their TM practice > > to further stages of practice... > > raunchydog wrote: > TM is simple and Vaj can't stand it that he has > contorted his life into complex spiritual > practices... > Vaj's problem isn't that he is too wise; his problem is that he seeking too avidly for the answers to his problem. Striving to understand is a form of greed - greed for views. Too much greed of any kind will always result in disappointment.
Too avid seeking for enlightenment embodies a very subtle greed which must be rooted out by more subtle efforts. But you must not pursue the uprooting greedily, but by means of a still more subtle way. Vaj needs to realize that he is not going to get any more enlightenment than he is going to get. And while metaphysical pursuits may be interesting to a certain degree, not one single concept is going to help him cross over to the other side. "The problem of stopping the striving is sufficiently difficult, complex, and attention-demanding that anyone who pursues it seriously will have little time left over for indulging unhappily in metaphysical pursuits" (20-23). Work cited: 'Philosophy of the Buddha' by Archie J. Bahm Harper, 1959
