--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > On Nov 28, 2006, at 10:50 AM, jim_flanegin wrote: > > > > > Dude, you've never even *done* the flying technique! lol! > > > > Not only have I, I was a successful hopper. > > > > > What you > > > have written has nothing specific to do with the flying sutra. > > > Pranayama!? That is just absurd- I did pranayama before > meditation > > > for years prior to meditation and never a hint of hopping or > > > movement. > > > > Pranayama in it's deeper sense is a yama or pause--a gap--in the > > breath, that often coincides with Pure Consciousness.
I think the most popular analysis of "praaNaayaama" is praaNa + aayaama. (a + a > aa; a + aa > aa; aa + a > aa; aa + aa > aa.... :0 ) aayaama [AyAma; edited by CM] m. stretching , extending RPra1t. Sus3r. &c. ; restraining , restrained , stopping Mn. MBh. Bhag. &c. ; expansion , length (either in space or time) , breadth (in mensuration) Sus3r. A1s3vGr2. R. Megh. &c. If this gap > > does not occur, even briefly in a flash, the prana can never have > the > > door it needs to "hop". > > Agreed, and I apologize for my assumption. Thanks for the > clarification. >
