--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > On Jul 2, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
> > 
> > >>
> > > At the start of my 6-month course, Maharishi said, "I have 6 
> months  
> > > to turn you into yogis." He had us doing lots of asanas, 
taking  
> > > cold baths, fasting, sitting in meditation without back 
support  
> > > (which he strongly recommended), etc. The impression he gave 
> was,  
> > > OK, enough of this slouchy softy business. Time to get 
serious.  
> > > Another thing he said was, "it's a race to see who can purify 
> the  
> > > fastest." _
> > 
> > 
> > Perhaps without the direct influence of a teacher these key  
> > instructions have fallen by the wayside. I would also've liked 
to  
> > have seen more skillful purification practices make there way 
> into  
> > advanced TM routines (other than 'just plain ole tapas'). They 
can 
> be  
> > profoundly healing on so many levels, even the physical.
> >
> 
> Sitting, slouching, even lying down sometimes during TM is good 
> enough. No need for rigorous postures. These may occur naturally 
> anyway, during practice, or during TM-Sidhis, but no need to 
enforce 
> them at all. The technique is powerful enough to take care of all 
of 
> this. 
> 
> As the Self becomes more well known and well integrated, 
everything 
> will find its place during practice. No need to stress certain 
> things during the correct practice of TM. For other techniques, 
this 
> may be desirable, but not for TM. As the man says, 'take it easy; 
> take it as it comes.'
>

Yes, this is true enough but since I manged to get into the lotus 
the quality of the experience has increased markedly and surely the 
deeper and more prolonged the experience the better? actually even 
half lotus is a big improvement. 

Two sets of really stretched asanas is rather good too, what other 
TM improvement techniques could we be missing out on?







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