--- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actions of individuals who are motivated by fear can more easily be > predicted than those who have tasted freedom. > As far as I understand, transcending thought puts one in the position > of being unconditioned. This freedom to go beyond conditioning and > experience deep bliss is likely to produce free-thinking individuals. > Individuals who can slough off conditioning are going to be stronger > at being free-er. This is my belief and experience.
I would tend to agree, *except* when the daily transcendence is "supplemented" with new conditioning. This is, sadly, the case in far too many spiritual organizations. It's definitely *not* just a TM thang. As the meditator sloughs off decades of societal conditioning, its absence is filled with dogma that becomes the new conditioning. And since it comes from the same people who taught the technique that brought about the new sense of freedom, this dogma is often accepted without question. It's the Catch-22 of spiritual practice. Unc 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/
