--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't recall having read anyone saying here > that you meditate for many years with no > discernible change and then suddenly be in > CC, at least not as the standard pattern with > TM. But I could have missed it. > > The other dogma, that you can just *decide* to > become suddenly enlightened, we've been seeing > a lot. When we realize that all the various states of consciousness we have ever known or tasted are -- however enjoyable -- yet impermanent, partial, changing, and that there must somehow be something more, something unchanging that embraces them all, even here and now -- at this point, we may well decide to suddenly step off the belief- system of "progress" toward a never-arriving "goal." This is (or can be) the beginning of real Awakening, and it may well unfold from a specific decision to step off the merry-go-round. I believe it would certainly help first to have experienced at least a taste of whatever various states of consciousness one had thought one had desired. Whether one can actually voluntarily "decide" the first part of this realization -- that any conceptual experience or state of consciousness is experience-bound and impermanent -- I don't know. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
