Thank you gerbal88 She often said to me,,,"Why are you with me, I have nothing to offer.
I always found that to be a very said reflection of ones self worth. And yet she claims to be on such a high spiritual path. She feels she is superior spiritually because she is a TM'er. --- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Bill (William)Simmons" > <unclewas@> 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/
