--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick > > Gillam" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- sparaig wrote: > > > > > > > > Being without expectations becomes less and less > > easy the more > > you > > > > hear your own and other's experiences, > > especially in a casual > > context. > > > > > > If I'd reading you right, Lawson, you're saying > > it's better > > > to be innocent, without expectations fostered by > > hearing > > > other people's experiences. If that's the case, > > why do you > > > hang out in a forum like this, where people > > describe > > > their experiences in and out of meditation? So you > > > quickly close such posts before reading them, or > > what? > > > > > > > I often skim over the experiences part. Its like > > reading my mantra: > > my eyes are trained to not dwell on it in general > > because I become > > uncomfortable for one reason or another. Likewise > > with experiences, > > although MY experiences during/after TM have swung > > so widely and > > wildly over the years that I don't put much stock in > > any experience, > > my own or anyone else's. > > The only value in hearing about others' experiencing > is that it is entertaining and it can clarify certain > concepts that pertain to higher states of > consciousness. Having a quiver of these concepts at > your ready is helpful so the mind won't go insane when > it starts to experience realization. > > >
Too late for me, but I'm not sure that "realization" is the word to use in my case... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
