--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "larry.potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:58 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Stages of samaadhi > > > <snip> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > But MMY, in my understanding, teaches exactly the > opposite: samadhi is prerequisite to samyama. > Obviously samyama is not the same as "pure" > samadhi; 3:8 is a DEscription, not a PREscription. > > >> > > Can you refer us to any source by MMY to that effect, that reflect > that that samadhi is prerequisite to samyama ? > It's not my understanding of the MMY's teaching (Samyama). > > As I understand it, Samyama flows and go thru stages (processes, > refinement) that "evolves" into a samadhi "stage" and not vice > versa. Only later on, after more practice, the states of samyama > and samadhi almost become one almost instantly.
I'm not saying samyama and samadhi are the same. Rather, samadhi is a component of the practice of samyama. You've taken the TM-Sidhis course, right? Think back to the instructions for how to entertain the sutras. And recall that you can't take the TM-Sidhis course until you've had some experience of TM.
