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> --- In [email protected], navashok wrote:
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> > --- In [email protected], "Ann" wrote:
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> > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb wrote:
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> > > > --- In [email protected], "Richard J. Williams"
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> > > > > > Michael Jackson:
> > > > > > I am wondering what the deal is on puja anyway.
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> > > > > Puja is all about placement and positioning.
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> > > > IMHO, puja is all about moodmaking and the
> > > > placebo effect, both for the people performing
> > > > them, and for the people watching them and being
> > > > instructed in some puja-accompanied technique.
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> > > Said like the true cynic that you are. I am not saying you are
wrong, it is just that this is exactly what I would expect you to say.
Whether you truly believe it or not I don't know. But it certainly is a
sweeping dismissal of the power or effect of the puja on its
participants.
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> > > > TM teachers are actually instructed *to* moodmake
> > > > while performing the puja, and to "dwell on the
> > > > meaning of the words" while performing one.
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> > > I wouldn't know about that but other teachers here would. Can
anyone who are TM teachers here confirm that?
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> > Yes, it's certainly true. TM teachers usually don't talk about that,
as it's part of the agreement from that they don't talk about any of the
confidential aspects of the teaching. There is something called meaning
and feeling, that you have to hold in your mind while performing the
puja. There are actually 4 layers: The original sanskrit, the translated
meaning, the associated feeling, and a symbolic short explanation, and
as a fifth layer, the action of offerings. And you are tested for that
too, under real-life conditions.
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> I understand holding the meaning and the feeling together as you
perform the puja but would you characterize that as having been, as a
teacher of TM "... instruct[ed] to moodmake while performing the
puja..."?
certainly not instructed since as above mentioned should be the result
of a multifaceted layer by layer gentle confidential approach of month
long training and exposure
BTW
thanks for breathtaking photo
