I second that. The 3 stage pranayama, mudras with ujya, then the kriya,
especially the long one in a group really suffuses you with sattva and stops
the mind. As I said in another post, my mind often completely stops when I'm
doing kriya and I'll just sit there until it starts again!
--- On Wed, 8/25/10, emptybill <emptyb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: emptybill <emptyb...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Desperation to fill the Domes
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 11:35 AM
I think just doing the 3-Stage pranayama makes a
noticeable difference as an entry to meditation.
However, SSRS was quite clear that kriya itself
clarifies the nadis, dissolves tamas, pacifies rajas, and suffuses the mind
with sattva. The consequence is that it brings the mind close to or into
samadhi. Thus, when meditation begins, the mind is focused and quiet yet clear
and transparent in its perception. A vivid, inner silence can then be
recognized as the fundamental condition of awareness. This is way beyond a
teacher having someone
opening and closing his or her eyes to experience the distinction between outer
and inner perception and then pointing out some instants of quietness.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall <thomas.p...@...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:57 AM, vajradhatu108 no_re...@yahoogroups.comwrote:
>
> >
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote:
> >
> > > I am not sold on SSRS. But I do like his Art of Living kriya and the
> > > breezy style exuded by the teachers of SSRS I've met.
> > >
> >
> > Sometimes the burgers are better on the other side of the fence.
> >
> >
> Erma Bombeck said it best in the title of her book *The Grass is Always
> Greener Over the Septic Tank*.
>
> I am finding each day that the Art of Living kriya is taking the doom and
> gloom out of my TM/TMSP. I go into my program now full of light and
> experience that light throughout my TM/TMSP program. I remember, soon after
> becoming a sidha, taking a week long WPA at 1111 H. St. NW. A more
> experienced sidha despaired of his chronic insomnia. Others chimed in. I
> couldn't understand how something as wonderful as the TMSP could allow this
> sort of suffering to creep in. Over the years people tried marmalade, vastu
> and basti, all to no avail. I saw the sidhas around me becoming depressed,
> nearly falling over from lack of sleep, becoming unglued.
>
> It's very clear to me, having been on CCP for a very long time when it got
> down to just Bobby Kennedy and myself, then on IA a decade later, that
> there's something wrong with the TM/TMSP. It's unbalanced, as, I suspect,
> was it's spiritual leader.
>
> Me, I'm happy as a clam right now and could happily leave this group were it
> not for the very vigorous conversations that have taken place here in the
> last month or two revealing the good, the bad and the ugly side of
> Maharishi, the TMO and MMY's teachings. IMO something very important was
> missing from the TM/TMSP practice (balance, perhaps?). I've gotten it back,
> alas, and I'm happy for that.
>
> But I no longer need his departed Holiness, his Dome, his bogus 1%, square
> root of 1% numbers and his organization, or what's becoming at least three
> organizations, one in Vlodrup, one in Paris and one in India.
>
