Comment below: --- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > **SNIP TO END**
Agreed. For a long-time TM-meditator, atma-vichara is amazingly effective. Once I read Nisargadatta and followed his simple advice regarding abiding wordlessly in the "I Am" -- one's own sense of presence (essentially the same as Ramana Maharshi's "who am I?", but subtly different and, for me, fundamentally so) -- it was extraordinary. To realize that Self *really* was Self. And that all these years I'd been steeping in it during meditation while looking for "it" or expecting "it" to "show up" like something else. I think Vaj has referred to this in earlier posts as "meditation without support" as opposed to mantra meditation in which the mantra ia, obviously, the support. This no-thought meditation is sweet, indeed. Samadhi on tap. Marek ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/YbEMxA/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/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/
