--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, you're right I'm sure. And this is a very compelling > > argument for teaching practises of meditation in a non- > > movement way, without deliberate conditioning. > > What deliberate conditioning did *I* go through? > > I took TM in 1973, SCI and checker-training in 1974-5, an advanced > course in the UK after I joined the USAF, then the TM-Sidhis in > 1985-ish. Went back to Fairfield once or twice for a week, and to > DC for a week. That's over a period of 30 years...
How many states of consciousness are there? Can one transcend directly via concentration, with no intervening interval of "effortlessness?" Is intent or effort in meditation a good thing or a bad thing? Are there physiological coorelates to enlightenment? Are the Vedas the primary "source of all knowledge?" Is thought in meditation a result of the release of stress or is it an indication that the meditator is just being lazy about entertaining thoughts during meditation? Can enlightenment be intellectually understood? Does "stress" have anything to do with the lack of realization of enlightenment? Is it Ok to be a TM teacher or a student at MUM and openly see teachers from other spiritual traditions? Is it Ok to learn and practice meditation techniques other than TM along with TM? Is it Ok to "excommunicate" from the organization someone who sees other teachers or practices other techniques than TM? Can the enlightened make mistakes? Is there such a thing as "the laws of nature?" Does Maharishi have the ability to accurately "see" the future and thus make "proclamations" about it? Is the effortlessness of TM unique among meditation techniques? Is TM the "best" or most effective method of meditation available? They're just questions, man. But if you think about it, each of the "right answers," according to the TM dogma, was taught to you. I call that conditioning. 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/
