---- Original Message ----- From: "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Stages of samaadhi
--- In [email protected], "larry.potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:58 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Stages of samaadhi > > > <snip> > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], 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. > > <snip> > <<One must already know TM and practice to learn and practice MMY's samyama technique. That's a prerequisit in the first place. >> right, in that context that Judy was referring to, of teaching new students the Sidhi technique after they are familiar with TM. I understood that she was referring to that later on. initially I was more thinking in the context of a specific one session, of using the mantra in meditation until the flow becomes a full evolved Samadhi. Samyama is basically a pulse of attention, hence any session of meditation will have parts of it as well (not just the Sidhis), therefore also before the full blown Samadhi there will be an ongoing samyama pulses.
