It is very possible to get the effects of an herb, vitamin or mineral by thinking about it. Also cooling down or warming up too.
On 02/14/2013 02:31 PM, Share Long wrote: > Whoa, that's interesting about the importance of not taking a remedy too > long. How about when Maharishi said that one day we'd only have to think the > name of an herb to get the result? My neighbors gave me some cuttings from a > bacopa plant. Evidently it's making the rounds in FF. I made sure I got the > name as well (-: > > > Even low tech me got the joke about Linux. > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:29 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Question for the Indians on FFL > > > > On 02/13/2013 02:15 PM, Share Long wrote: >> Wow, this is the first time I've heard of Sanatana Dharma. > I'm amazed at that. Not only does MMY mentioned it in the Gita but the > SCI tapes too (if my memory serves me well). He didn't invent that > either because it is well known in Indian philosophy. To be fair MMY > just passes on a lot of stuff that is just standard Indian philosophy. > I think some TM people think he discovered it. I'm not even surprised > that he observed that capitalism was on it's way to a fall. You don't > have to be enlightened to see that. Just follow the logical order of > things, keep the blinders off and look at the world from a global not > compartmentalized view. > >> Thanks for posting. Also enjoyed your post comparing body to a car. I've >> often thought that if we knew in advance how much maintenance our vehicle >> would need, we might not purchase it in the first place (-: > Maybe we need a "lemon law" for bodies. :-D > > My mother carried me when she had hypoglycemia so I figure my weak > adrenals are from that. Our bodies change all the time so I've never > figured that unless your doshas are very polarized that one meeting then > another a month away would be very helpful. Dr. Lad points out that you > might only even need to use some ayurvedic cure for as little as a day > to get results (sorta like taking an aspirin) and even a week later you > could have flipped to the opposite dosha if you stay on it longer than > needed. > >> >> And about TM distracting people from becoming movers and shakers...I thought >> it was the other way around. That it's the world of movers and shakers >> that's a distraction. Sometimes I think 200% of life might have been >> Maharishi's most revolutionary idea. > Not his idea either. Just standard Indian philosophy. All he was doing > was packaging it for western minds. As for movers and shakers, the > original idea of professionals in some field teaching TM on the side was > a great idea. About a year after I returned from TTC he declared that > the centers should be given over to the new MIU graduates. Well this > was about as smart as paying kids who just graduated from college with a > BS in computer science a $120K a year job. They didn't have enough > "experience in life" and turned off a lot of the meditating community. > Most should have had a year or two of apprenticeship in the field rather > than "taking over". That was when a lot of teachers began questioning > their involvement in TM. Of course having a few zealots appoint > themselves as "TM Gestapo" didn't help either. > > >
