yes, I have friends who are Amma devotees now. We're living in wonderful times for sure.
________________________________ From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hello FFL - I'm speaking specifically of traditions have practice meditation. One of the people who commented was an Ammachi devotee. Interesting though, when I was visiting Ammachi's ashram in Kerala I ran into old friends who were one time TM teachers and residing at the ashram. I'm also familiar with a number of other traditions with friends in them. Even my guru mentions to me when eclipses and Indian holidays occur to be sure to do "all my mantras" as if it was unusual to do them that way daily. On 06/11/2012 09:31 AM, Share Long wrote: > So do other traditions have a different kind of sadhana? Inquiry? Seva? > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu<noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 11:11 AM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hello FFL - > > > > I found it interesting that other traditions were amazed that TMers > meditated daily. In other traditions it wasn't emphasized. In fact > Rick even he'd noticed the same thing when I brought it up. Some gurus > give temporary meditations to take care of problems for a while such as > planetary complications. > > On 06/11/2012 04:44 AM, Share Long wrote: >> But then could they really be called TMers? Perhaps there are gradations >> of TMing (-: >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: turquoiseb<no_re...@yahoogroups.com> >> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 6:38 AM >> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hello FFL - >> >> >> >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long<sharelong60@...> wrote: >>> Logically the only thing that one can say about TMers is >>> that they practice TM. >> If that. :-) I used to know meditators and former >> TM teachers in L.A. who hadn't practiced TM regularly >> in years, but pretended to so that they could go to >> Charlie Lutes' Friday night talks to partake in the >> social scene. >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Vaj<vajradhatu@...> >>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >>> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 6:11 AM >>> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hello FFL - >>> >>> On Jun 10, 2012, at 6:51 PM, iranitea wrote: >>>> In these dialogues I found Lawson and most of the pro >>>> TM-ers here extremely dense and blocked by their typical >>>> TM concepts. (concepts I can still use for teaching, but >>>> in a less dogmatic way, and with more openness.) >>> If there's one thing you can say about TMers, they are >>> locked into their paradigm and have a hard time stepping >>> outside that box. >>> >> > >
