--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 16, 2006, at 10:13 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > Note that to start with, Vaj had claimed that "focus" > > was the "official" movement translation of "dharana." > > When I asked where this official translation was to be > > found, he switched to claiming "steadiness" was the > > term TMers used for "dharana." When I said this was > > nonsense, he produces a quote, apparently intending to > > suggest he is documenting the use of "steadiness" as > > a translation of "dharana," when it isn't a translation > > to begin with and doesn't even refer to meditation. > > No, merely commenting on your belief that the word steadiness was > not used in connection with tm/tmers.
If that's in fact what you were commenting on, you were commenting on your own hallucination. I never said or suggested any such thing. > He may or may not be referring to dharana in this instance--I > don't really care--it certainly fits experientially for those > familiar with this state of steadiness and inner focus. However he > clearly uses that word in his own translation of the yoga-sutra of > Patanjali as a description of dharana. In connection with the TM-Sidhis, not plain-vanilla TM, as I already pointed out. ------------------------ 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/
