Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New member has proposal for Fairfield Group

[Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]]

Not all disciplines emphasize practicing meditation twice a day.  Some 
just emphasize using it as needed.  It's good to step out of the shadow 
of TM and it's narrow definitions and find out what other paths do.  I 
know, they may want to throw you out of the dome for that but other 
gurus will actually have you visit saints, temples, gurus and ashrams. I 
think the restrictions were to keep the money flow tight.  And of course 
the guilt aspect of you won't be supporting world peace if you don't at 
least meditate or fly twice a day.  That's a variation on the old 
"Master Game" called "sin."

On 09/23/2015 04:21 PM, olliesed...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:

Those could be useful adjustments, though you still have the basic 
"problem" with TM, of transcending twice a day -- If TM can be 
considered a technology, we are used to having our tech delivered with 
no downside, except cost. TM represents the benefits of tech; 
acceleration, expansion, ease, etc., but the integration of it all, 
the work, must still get done, to ensure continued benefits - like 
building our own TV, instead of buying one. Some people don't want to 
do all the work. Also, because it is an intra-personal technology, 
demonstrating the benefits can be tricky, at best.


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :

There was a report on FFL about an Indian ayurvedic doctor who visited 
and offered to teach correct meditation.  He maintained that TM was 
too "shotgun" and there were better ways using ayurveda to teach 
meditation. I've been saying this for years as the TM technique is 
pretty much for pitta or rajasic types.  That might mean if you're a 
bit kapha TM might be fattening.  Some of  the Indian gurus will 
observe a person for several days and give a mantra appropriate for 
their type.

On 09/23/2015 10:43 AM, olliesedwuz@... <mailto:olliesedwuz@...> 
[FairfieldLife] wrote:

    That covers a lot of ground.:-)  I agree that TM is a mechanical
    means to liberation, through the knowledge of the Veda, and that
    it can work as described. It is basically a tool for us to get
    out of the dullness you mentioned, and get things moving again -
    we are at our core, transcendental beings and might as well get
    on with it. I also see Maharishi as a great messenger, responding
    to the need of the times, to bring out the knowledge that he did,
    though I have no need to revere him as a personality.


    As for TM being for everyone, it doesn't appear to be. Many who
    learned in the past have now set it aside. The intellectual case
    could be made certainly that it is a benefit for everyone, but
    each of us makes up our minds differently, and we are often drawn
    to spiritual practices for karmic reasons, in addition to a well
    reasoned approach.

    Simply having the opportunity to find a teacher and learn TM is
    enough, imo, and that is now well established globally.

    ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
    <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <ryandave177@...>
    <mailto:ryandave177@...> wrote :

    You asked: what are the 3 most important ideas in my book:
     A PIRATE'S CALL TO MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI; GENIUS IS EASY,
    BEHAVIOR'S A MESS

    #1. The most important idea to me in my book came, after I
    finished writing it, as I witnessed what I wrote.
    I am still learning what I wrote, as I read it again and again.

    In chapter 5, titled: MAHARISHI'S GIFT.
     In so many words, Maharishi had one job...to inform, there lies
    within: your potential, unrealized intelligence and joy.
    Maharishi provided us with a key to unlock the pathway to what we
    already own: our birthright.

    So many people in the world believe or unconsciously assume this
    knowledge of life, the vedas, the meditation process, all this is
    given, from Maharishi. Yes... Maharishi has provided us with the
    key to turn on the veh! icle. Who owns the vehicle?...we all do.
    Knowledge is structured in consciousness, we are remembering and
    tapping into what we already possess.
    If people really understood this reality, they wouldn't say, nah,
    not interested, meditation is not my style. People would line up
    at age 10 to receive their key to unlock their God given
    potential as human beings.

    This is not Maharishi's knowledge, it is the knowledge of life.
    Thank God, Maharishi has enough patience and heart to pursue the
    work.

    #2. That genius seeps through cracks of dullness. In an instant,
    brilliance of mind may surface an idiot of sorts. That is my
    subjective experience: as dull as I am, I am genius in moments as
    it comes without effort.
    Not a lifetime of meditation, an instant, it arrives and one
    realizes, I am more than what I thought, was capable.

    #3. That we drag old thought through fresh fields of lost wonder.
    Starting with chapter 3: realizing that habits and conditions of
    mind, filter out, our love of life. Meditation is a tool for a
    freshening sense.