Re: [FairfieldLife] Guru "empowered" mantras (was Re: TMO as a valid employer)

[Vaj]

On Dec 19, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Premanand Paul Mason wrote: Someone recently said to me that cults can only sell scaffolding.  Scaffolding can be a superfluous encumbrence unless there is that  need for support whilst accessing difficult to reach places. There was a posting recently about 'the gap'. Essentially, TMers are  being directed at finding this gap and prolonging the experience of  not experiencing thought. But has anyone else noticed that the  repetition of a mantra can sometimes be counterproductive in that in  filling the gap, it appears sometimes to delay the experience of no  thought? I have noticed that a swifter route to the gap is dropping  thought altogether, just willing it. Actually, part of the point of the post was that although TM uses the idea of the gap/sandhi to explain TM; in the full idea of what that entails, TM only goes as far as 1 or 1.5 out of 7. There are a whole slew of other methods beyond that to reach the big "E". As a person offlist said to me that's what you call 'we were given one wheel, and lead to believe we had the whole bike.' Ouch. 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  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.