Thank you Rick I appreciate the insights. --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 8/12/06 12:24 PM, Bill (William)Simmons at [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? > > > Self-realization (ideally). > > > > 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. > > > So have I, for 38 years. > > > > Has no will to work > > > Me neither, but that¹s not due to meditation. But I work anyway. And > actually have fun with it most of the time. > > > > 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. > > > It¹s natural to want to know and be more. One can explore and become > permanently aware of ³higher² planes of existence without forfeiting this > one. It¹s not ³the other side.² All ³levels² of reality exist here, now. > What you experience in meditation is not necessarily what you experience > after you die. > > > > I am wrong???? > > The point of meditation is to realize that ³higher consciousness² not merely > in meditation, but all the time. This is tremendously enriching to life in > many ways. This realization has dawned in many who have been meditating a > long time, and in some who haven¹t been doing it that long. >
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