--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A taste of what long rounding used to be like, from > a friend: > > I went home and signed up for the course in Humbolt > later that summer -- > 6-8 hours a day with Maharishi. I was so excited > and kept telling > myself "this is it" and "it all makes sense now." > From there I signed > up for a teacher training course which started > January 1, 1972. When we > arrived in Majorca we were told to go to our room > and start meditating > as much as possible and come back to a meeting a > week later. They said > Maharishi was in silence for a week and we should > just stay in our rooms > and meditate. After 6 weeks of rounding we went to > Fiuggi, Italy for a > month or so. The course on ³Fantasy Island² was > wild and crazy. I > rounded for 44 hours at a stretch (4 hour > meditations then assanas) and > then came out, went to dinner, then to a lecture > with Maharishi. He > came to our hotel every other day. It was > wintertime and there were a > lot of storms. People literally went crazy. People > were running up and > down the halls screaming in the middle of the night. > It was wild. That > was the last course where people just mediated all > the time. The next courses after Fuggi were the Summer of 1972 SCI courses. One was again in Humbolt and the other was at Queens College in Kingston, Ontario. That was the one I was on. We did two rounds in the morning and two rounds in the afternoon. I remember all the old timers (back then that was someone who had been meditating more than 3 to 5 years!!) were groaning from thae lack of "real" rounding. The next TTC was that Fall in LaAntilla, Spain and we very slowly started rounding until we were "only" doing 4 rounds in the morning and 4 in the afternoon. When MMY came in early December near the end of the course he said he was very pleased with how we all looked. There were no "Fuggi Freakouts". The only time we got to meditate as much as possible was the first week of 1973 in LaAntilla when MMY went into silence. The people who were staying on for more courses had very nice meetings with him. I remember one of them he was reclining on his couch in a very casual manner. He told us to, "...be easy with the mantra for the week." And when asked if we should do pranayama or asanas he said,"No,no,no..." and dismissed it with his hand. So we all were meditating, not rounding, about 18 hours a day (man what an experience that was!!) and after the week was up, MMY came out of silence and we had a meeting the next day. Someone asked MMY how we should taper off the long meditations and he appeared shocked and asked us who had told us to meditate that way. We all said that he had and he just shook his head and claimed that he had never said such a thing! I remember laughing because it was very clear who had told us to meditate like that. MMY up to his old tricks! > > > > > 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 > > > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
