--- In [email protected], "seventhray1" <steve.sun...@...> wrote: > > He's a plant. A very, very clever SSRS plant. This is the > last sphere where MMY thought dominates. TP is on special > assignment to wean some of the fence sitters away to the > competition. But It Won't Work!. We're onto to you TP. Your > plot is now uncovered. Let's here about how you fall asleep > during Kriya. Yea, that's a more likely scenario.
I think it's neat that Tom has finally found something to write positively about, but I'm seeing it more akin to the old classic New Yorker cartoon in which two guys at a cocktail party are talking about a third guy, standing alone across the room, wearing a slightly crazed smile on his face. They're saying, "Avoid that guy...he just read a book that changed his life." It's the Newbie thang. Tom's experiencing some- thing new and different, for the first time in decades. *Of course* he's somewhat enthusiastic about it. But IMO he'd be equally enthusiastic if the course he'd taken was on tantric basket weaving instead of kriya. He got off his butt and did something new, and feels rejuvenated as a result. The larger issue IMO will be how long he *stays* rejuvenated. In the Rama trip, because there was no injunction against "seeing other teachers," we got used to having fellow students come back from some course or weekend seminar or retreat radiating excitement and talking like salespersons for the thing they had just tried. But we also got used to listening politely and then waiting a few weeks to see how long the purported benefits of the New Big Thing lasted. In most cases the excitement went away within a few days, and the person was "back to normal" within a week. Real change in a spiritual sense is IMO something you have to display over a long period of time. I tend to treat the temporary excitement of "Oh boy! I've just seen a teacher who lit up the room with shakti and my life is changed forever" coming from a spiritual seeker the same way I would "Oh boy! I just saw Blind Boy Boddhisattva and my life is changed forever" coming from a music fan. My response is pretty much the same in both cases: "Find me in two months and tell me about it then."
