> > >"sinhlnx" <sinhlnx@> wrote: > > > > > > " > > Indian religion adds a transcendental quality that has found > >popularity > > worldwide in the form of meditation, and in the mid-1800s > > American > > writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson began citing Indian practices > >after > > abandoning Christianity.
> >Emerson wrote, "I owed a magnificent day to > >the Bhagavat-Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an > >empire > > spake to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, > >consistent, > > the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate > >had > > pondered and thus disposed of the same questions that exercise > >us." > >-Conservapedia on Transcendentalism. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, generation after generation, time and again. Age old >distilled > down to present it happened again flowing to Yogananda popularly in >the > Mid 20th century and again with Maharishi & TM and others too in >the > later 20th. Manifold more again now in recent years entering the 21st > century with the open-source of the internet, modern media and easy > transport to most everywhere of ideas and experience. It has gone >way > more than TM now. > > Sinhlnx, Great thoughtful post. Thanks. I forwarded it around and > folks like it a lot for the perspective. > > -Doug in FF > Most people i know attending the Domes in FF for group meditation there are doing way more than the TM practice as they do it. Someone sent me this paste below after i posted this above. Kind of shows the advancement of things here with people and their experience with it otherwise: <paste> "based on a passage in Yogananda Gita, i decided to pay more attention to my sitting position during meditation, and, wouldn't you know it, found the classic palms-up-on-the-tops-of-the-knees position to be the best. and then noticed what happened when i touched my thumb to different fingers during program. thumb to little finger = shakras 1&2 lighting up. thumb to ring = 3&4. thumb to middle = 5. thumb to index = 6&7. very nice trick. really pours the juice anywhere i want it to go. very cool to walk down the shakras with the last 7 sutras. you probably have been doing this from day one, but its a find for me. and plus i look like a little swami." It is just spiritual practice, in FF. With Best Regards, -Doug in FF
