It was a joke Steve - but I still say that what the TMO presents is like watching Lawrence Welk and what the TMO actually does is like watching a Black Veil Brides video
________________________________ From: seventhray27 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:05 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment...in your own words MJ, you'll latch on to anything that you think will discredit the despised TMO. Sometimes you just plain make a fool of yourself. I had a bite of rare steak the other night that made me transcend. How can we spin that? How bout TM makes people bloodthirsty. --- In [email protected], Michael Jackson wrote: > > Oh Share I love this! I wish I could see Bob Roth and his TMO buddies > response to the statement that TM transcending thru TM and smoking pot > sometimes give the same experience! Thanks for posting this! > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Share Long > To: "[email protected]" > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 2:43 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Enlightenment...in your own words > > >  > Carol me and many of my long term TM friends could care less if we're > enlightened. But I want to respond to your exchange with Emily about > backpacking, walking the dog, etc. > > I remember the first time I meditated in March 1975 I thought, oh, I've had > this > before. It was very familiar to me. From sometimes getting in the zone > when I played sports. Sometimes snoozing in the hammock in the backyard > after work. Sometimes from dancing to my favorite music. Body surfing! > Sometimes from > marijuana. And I definitely wanted that relaxed but alive experience > in a natural way. I think that's what I get with TM. > > I really like > Maharishi's analogy for this: meditating is like dipping a cloth in the dye > where the cloth is your nervous system and the dye is Being or pure > consciousness or what Doc calls Silence. Then engaging in daily > activity is like putting the cloth in the sun. The color fades, but not > completely. What color is left after fading in the sun, that color is > permanent. Then dip in dye again, then fade again, over and over until > one day the color is totally permanent. Being or Silence is permanently > experienced along with all other states. Maharishi calls it restful > alertness and for me that phrase captures its quality of being both settled > and potentially full of activity.  > > I'd say practicing TM makes the whole process not necessarily faster but more > reliable. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Carol > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 12:45 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Enlightenment...in your own words > > >  > I'm curious to hear/read different folks descriptions of what it is like to > have the Silence permeate other areas of your life. > > And why is this state of grounded in the self and permanent silence called > "Enlightenment?" > > Thanks! > > PS: Jim (doctordumbass) stated in his own words regarding Enlightenment: > "It is anything but a static state, first experienced as always being > grounded in the Self, or permanent silence. Once a person is established in > Silenc within, the enlightenment begins to "infect" everything else. The > Silence within can no longer be overshadowed, destroyed, or disrupted. Sounds > crazy, huh?:-)" > He stated that here: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/333754 > > *************** >
