--- In [email protected], Dick Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MAHARISHI, DECEMBER 20, 2006 > >
*************** In your post http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/126763 I found it interesting that Maharishi repeated several times that people should only be meditating 3-4 hours. I wonder if this message got through to Bevan et al who are requiring invincibility course participants to do 8 hours: ** "So the work you are experiencing (?)-nothing is straining, absolutely no strain. It should be as natural as possible. Have all the things that have to be done during the day-bathing and eating and laughing and talking-everything in a very normal position. We don't strain ourself, uh? When we are emphasizing on the holiday, we thought-so we don't forget about society; we don't forget our home. That is there already. Not to that extent completely-uh? We are not- never go out on that level, because that will be too, too, too- premature is the word, uh? That will be only on the experiencing level, experiencing level. Lot of rest-lot of rest is necessary. And rest, and asanas, pranayama, asanas, pranayama, asanas, pranayama. And good food is already there; good environment is already there. Completely natural life-what is called "natural life." Natural life does not forget anything. Only, we spend time in this. We don't call it exercise, but for the time being, for the meaning of it, we can call it exercise. So exercise has time value: three hours, four hours-a good exercise. We don't meditate whole day long; we never meditate whole day long. That will be stretching the ideal too much on one side. It must be normal; it must be normal; it must be normal, that's all. And come what may, experience will give us that ability to understand intellectually all our experiences. It's very necessary. It's very necessary not to have long time of it. Just three, four hours, good enough-and good rest in the middle, good rest in the middle: talking to friends, and laughing with them, and-all that should continue, all that. Only, our side interest in all these things, and then meditate on time. Give those four hours to meditate, or three hours to meditate. At that time, we just relax and we are meditating. When it's time for lunch, we take good lunch, and after lunch some rest, or listen to something nice, like that. And talk to friends, or- necessary, it's necessary, that we connect the ordinary waking state with the deep level of experience of the transcendental state. So don't forget about this thing, uh? Otherwise, the brain will be strained. Both things-balance, balance-both things-balance.... So it's very good (?). I am emphasizing now a balanced state, because all fifteen days "Mind your own business"-"Mind your own business" does not mean we strain our performance, we strain our awareness. Completely normal, natural life. And meditation has a place: two hours, three hours, four hours. We take complete rest, meditate for two hours-like that, like that-with complete gaps. I am emphasizing balance, because it does not go into the other side too much. Otherwise, physiology will strain unduly. And we want to save-that's why I'm emphasizing lot of rest and lot of rest and lot of rest, and lot of activity through the senses, through the mind, through the intellect, through the ego.
