--- In [email protected], "mathatbrahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ---TM in itself can make people passive, ultimately leading to the > Bliss-Ninny state; even more dangerous when one's satellite dish is > constantly on the Maharishi channel. Once, a non-meditating young > fellow from Brit posted a complaint in which he says his Dad no > longer works, but spends all of his time meditating and watching the > MMY channel.
TM, by itself, can cause all sorts of problems. TM, by itself, is NOT the TM program... > For those of you who practice TM but don't do the Siddhis, I > recommend the Gayatri mantra. This helps integrate Bliss with "outer" > activity, so that getting into work and doing constructive things > becomes more natural than sitting around. > MMY doesn't like japa mantra even though it's a traditional > practice in the Shankaracharya Tradition. > Start with one round a day. Do this for 30 days and record your > results. You will have overall, a more productive life. I'm a true blue MMY-ite, but thansk for the advice anyway. > > 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???? > > > 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/
