--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jul 16, 2006, at 10:26 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> > > wrote: > >> > >> You seem to be approaching a spiritual practice from a > >> very materialistic perspective. If you believe a > >> spiritual practice will fulfill your material desires > >> of the mind, you are quite mistaken. Fulfillment does > >> not arise from gratifying one desire after another. > >> Look at Buddha. He fulfilled all his desires and > >> became clinically depressed which led him to seek That > >> which is beyond desire. > > > > TM is a technique for householders. > > So then Purusha and Mother Divine shouldn't be or wouldn't be > practicing TM? >
They're not recluses. MMY isn't a recluse either, but a householder, according to his own definition, by his own words--he seemed quite startled when he answered the question that way. > Has something changed we hadn't heard of? The various monks and > priests who learned TM should not be doing this practice. Perhaps > someone should put out a memo. > Almost no Christian monk/nun is a recluse in MMY's lexicon. > > It's supposed to help you grow towards enlightenment, > > while strengthening the nervous system to allow you to attain > > relative desires more easily and > > at the same time making your desires more life/evolution-supporting. > > So it's kinda like lifting weights for your nervous system? Hmmm. > No. It's allowing the thalmus to reduce activity, thereby reducing sensory activity in the brain, both subtle and physical, thereby allowing the brain to rest and, one would assume, repair/normalize itself. Just as MMY has always said. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
