--- 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? 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/
