Different spiritual practices have different physiological effets. Your average focused attention or open-monitoring technique fragments the functioning of the brain, and that is seen as a good thing in those traditions that promote it.
L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" <awoelflebater@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@> wrote: > > > > A: I have no good intentions where meditation is concerned. > > > > B: It is arrogance typical of people who think only TM is an effective > > spiritual practice to think TM is the only effective spiritual practice. > > I have been away from the Movement and people that practice TM for so long > now that I wouldn't have a clue if anyone actually believes B (except Buck). > Are you sure there are many who believe TM is the ONLY effective spiritual > practice? Seems like a really sweeping assertion. It is one thing to think > TM is the best practice for you but quite another to say it is the only > effective one out there. But then you were surrounded by lots of Movement > people in a different capacity than I was and for me it was a long time ago > so maybe I am just not remembering the attitude at MIU clearly. I certainly > never felt that personally nor do I remember my close friends at MIU feeling > that. > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Buck <dhamiltony2k5@> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 7:09 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dome Rot; > > > > > > > > Â > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > You forgot to mention that most people who do > > > > > mumbojumbo "meditation" try to meditate. TM'ers > > > > > that have had regular checkings actually meditates. > > > > > > > > Michael Jackson: > > > > Are you saying then that every other meditation than > > > > TM, including all the other meditations from India > > > > are mumbo jumbo? > > > > > > No, clearly anyone just looking like they are meditating are not > > necessarily meditating. Careful Jackson, the road to hell is paved with > > good intentions. Like even with someone who gets down five times a day on > > their knees we'd have to look at their neurophysiology to see if anything > > transcendentally effective is really going on for them spiritually. > > > > > What else would you be meditating on if not 'mumbo > > > jumbo' - your navel? There's nothing wrong with some > > > 'snake-oil' if it works? > > > > > > > > > if everyone who comes to the Domes in Fairfield are > > > > > > Templars, what does that make all the other millions > > > > > > of people who meditate with other than TM all over > > > > > > the world? > > > > > > > > > > > That is fine enough. Templars-II. People do the best > > > > > they can given their circumstance. But it is so much > > > > > more effective to be in a group of experienced meditators, > > > > > templars meditating in group. Holy. Holy. It is > > > > > extremely powerful. - Buck > > > > > > > > > > >
