--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >e *some* payoff for all that boredom. > > > > > > Don't suppose it could have anything to do with > > > benefits from doing program, could it? > > > > You really think > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> > wrote: > > > > On Nov 5, 2006, at 4:54 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > > >> Yep, and one wonders what it is--I would guess some kind of > > >> security. Gotta b they get more benefits than those of us who do it > and > > aren't on it, Judy? I just don't see any evidence of that. > Between > > sickness, crying jags that last for weeks, supposedly, and > constant > > pleas to their friends for $$, I'd say they probably get less. > > > > Sal > > > > Its interesting, this phenomenon where people in groups dedicated to > TM, meditating and turning inward, lose their energy, get depressed, > and become less successful. > > My experience is that TM is a victim of its own efficiency in this > regard. As a very efficient technique for transcending, use of the > TM technique leads quickly and reliably to a direct experience of > the Self, the impersonal infinite foundation to life. With this > emphasis on TM, those on MD and THP confront what I call the 'charm > war' very quickly. This charm war manifests itself as no less than > the battle to the death between the self, who we are accustomed to > being, and the Self. Each is dedicated to killing the other. > > Anyone having a long-term interest in spiritual pursuits builds up > in waking state a number of stories regarding Self-realization or > enlightenment, what enlightened life is like, how to act, what to > do, etc. Unfortunately for such stories, TM efficiently provides the > direct experience. > > I recall facing this disconnect between what I was hearing, > believing and most importantly interpreting about enlightened life, > and my direct experience of the Self. I was literally at war with > myself, making ever more complex stories to justify myself on the > one hand, and my experience of my Self during TM. I became stiff, > angry and depressed. > > Only when I began feeling what was going on and taking many many > careful chances to break out of this inadvertent trap did I regain > the limitless energy provided by TM. Until that occurs, these folks > on MD and THP will remain at war with themselves, suffering from > depression and lack of success. >
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