--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Doug" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > > > > > I sometimes wonder how likely it is for a long term true believer to give > > > it up and lose faith. And whether it simply is a drifting away or a more > > > sudden "aha" moment. > > > > Usually, from my experiences meeting virtually thousands of people, it's > > due to lack of good experiences during meditation usually because of an > > undisciplined lifestyle. > > That ofcourse is just one of many reasons but definately the most common. > > > > Yeah, writing as an old and conservative meditator, I'm with Nablusoss on > this one. > My experience too. Simply are a lot of folks who just didn't sit up and do > the work of spiritual practice. Lot of people outright laid down and > actively went to sleep. Spiritual practice is something that folks do have > to do, as in have the discipline to do and work at. Not sleep at. > > Some grace may bring it along to folks as a work come to be done. Even so, > some lot of people even if given everything never learn how to work in life; > just get by and some are just quitters in being ill-prepared as they are > ill-disciplined. Either badly nurtured or cultured, just bad material that > might have been made more better beforehand, next time. > > So says the knowledge, people's experience, and the science together now. > > The extraordinary time now is that the spiritual bandwidth is so wide and > open to so many in these modern times. A message so widely around now in so > many ways, "Repent your ways and come to meditation". The opportunity of a > life time. It's even on Oprah. Hope springs eternal eternally in natural > law. Know they Self. > > Jai Adi Shankara, > -D in FF >
Please, be specific. What work of spiritual practice? Do you simply mean being regular in mediation/sidhi practice? Or more?
