--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Bill (William)Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't seem to come up with a rational reason to spend a great > portion of my life in meditation. What gets accomplished? What gets > created? > > I'm not trying to be argumentative here or confrontational, I am > just trying to understand . My X GF spends two hours a day in > meditation and has for 25 years. Has no will to work and has made > this one thing the center point in her life. She is what she calls a > Sidhi. > > She says she transcends and connects to the universal consciousness. > Cool!!!! but why the need to do this twice a day for your life. > What's the point. Clearly given the recognition of a higher > existance (through the acceptance of a higher universal consciounes) > is it not reasonable to assume that one day we will all leave the > physical plane a transcend to this higher place as part of the souls > natural evolution? > > So why spend the time we have been given here in a physical form and > on a physical plane trying to get back to the other side each and > everyday....When its time to go home we'll all get to go home. > > It seems to me like a person who goes away on a vacation to a far > off exotic land only to spend every day, twice a day calling home to > see how things are back there. > > Me I am here now in the present and on this plane of existance to > experience what is here in all its positive and negative aspects. > Why else would I be here if it wasn't to experience what is here on > this level of existance. > > I am wrong????
Hi, Bill -- I don't think you are wrong. Even Mahesh, in the early days, said the whole purpose of his meditation was so that we could enjoy life. He went so far as to say that we judge the benefit of our meditation by how well things go in daily activity [a bit of a paraphrase, but accurate nonetheless]. So I wonder what form of meditation your X GF is doing. When Mahesh realized that he was basically a nobody whom the Beatles ditched, he got rather more aggressive and began to churn out more and more to do (i.e., more and more for the punters to buy to enrich himself). He got rich and more and more people noticed that the more and more they had bought was making them more and more exhausted. The mind, proclaimed Mahesh cunningly, goes in the direction of more and more. Greed sells. Any salesman knows this. Something for nothing is a hot item, no matter what it costs. The purpose of meditation? Well, like Mahesh said: to enrich your daily activity. If it isn't enriching life, why are you doing it? Monks, nuns, recluse types do spend great portions of their life in deep meditation. But they also don't engage in daily activity as ordinary folk do. -- Mahesh used to make a big deal of recluse mantras and householder mantras. But that's just a diversion from the real effects of his meditation-method. His meditation- method/householder mantras turned a lot of folks into recluses and I'm not sure this is good. Maybe it kept them hooked on his every new greatest sure thing, I don't know. But you raise all the right questions. There are good meditation practises that really do enrich daily life. From my experience, however, I doubt very seriously that Mahesh's TM is one of them. 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/
