--- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: >
> I've been advised to concentrate on the dark retreat instructions I've > received over the last 30 years, along with various upadesha practices, and > the abhyantaravarga teachings. Not that it's really any of your business. See Jim, whats not to love. I have NO idea what the dark retreat instructions, the upadesha practices (well, I have an inkling what they are) and the abhyantaravarga teachings. (I would consider it a great boon if I could just pronounce that properly.) I am sure researching would be of value to me. I will probably do it. Maybe the methods are not my cup of tea. Still its GREAT IMO that such diversity of methods exist and are flourishing. Vaj in that little way is preserving traditions. He is not proceletizing.In fact, he has always been very reluctant to share details of such teachings and how to attain them. (May be a pearls before swine thing, which I GET, and take no offense.) And maybe Vaj is blowing smoke up his ass (is that an advanced prana technique or simply a hippy commune thing) or ours. So what. I love MMY travel agenda analogy for TM teachers. "You don't have to have been there to book a flight to India for someone". Considering all possibilities, not a high one IMO, but maybe Vaj is blowing smoke. Still, by causing others to look into such methods, even if he has in no way mastered them - not relevant -- he provides a travel agent function. But then again, are methods necessary? (as in having to go to traditions and other teachers) A quirky questions I asked last night -- but a real one. My current methods are essentially self-conceived. Things that simply came to me. Jungle methods. They work for me. Home made. Much taster and nutritious than store bought stuff. So I am not super eager to find new methods. But I have interest -- if only from an art appreciation perspective.
