"Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@...> wrote: >> "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > I could elaborate more, but think I'll stop here. > > > You didn't have to :-) > Thanks for the prompting. Here's what I was going to say. I was going to bring it up to the present.
Exactly 37 years ago I was hitchiking from Snowass, Colorado to Cobb Mountain California for my SCI (Science of Creative Intelligence) course, as part of my overall objective to become a teacher (initiator) of TM. Now, I have a son, 18, who is getting ready to attend college in the fall. And I reflect on how the trajectory he is taking is so different than mine. I don't know if even a single time in his 18 years (or fewer years for the other two - younger kids) if I even once mentioned giving meditation a try. In fact if/when, they would bring it up, I generally tried to change the subject as quckly as possible. What I am trying to say, (and not doing a very good job of it), is that it is strange to see him taking a completely different approach to life. I think it is the right approach for him, and there is no way I would have wanted to him navigate the years of drug use and general abandon that preceded my introduction to TM. On the other hand, I think I can say that those were just symptons of an overall seeking mentality. I gave them up almost immediately when I found what I felt I was looking for. A part of me hopes that in some way he will to a desire to penetrate the more "accidental" aspects of life and seek out the "essential". I think that will a happen. Anyway, right now, we have to go shopping for a new arm chair for our communal room, soI'll check in later on. Usually when I dangle a little question like that the response is .
