TurquoiseB wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 25, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Bhairitu wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are plenty of yogis who can teach people
>>>> how to teach "yogic meditation" some of which
>>>> may work a lot better or safer.
>>>>
>>> So, how many yogis can teach a person how to transcend?
>>> From my experience, and I've studied with several, not
>>> a single one had any idea of how to effortlessly go
>>> beyond the thinkng process, by transcending, like we
>>> regularly do using the TM technique.
>>>
>>> Here's a partial list:
>>>
>>> Suzuki Roshi
>>> Chogyam Trungpa
>>> Tarthang Tulku
>>> Swami Rama
>>> Swami Prakashanand Saraswati
>>> Yogi Bhaja
>>>
>> LOL, well what can I say. I know the states some of these gurus
>> imparted in their student, and it was miles beyond anything I
>> ever heard of in TMers! This speaks more to YOU then it does to
>> THEM. As a case and point, when I was once staying at Swami
>> Rama's ashram, he induced a samadhi in a student just casually
>> one day in the cafeteria. The guy locked into his asana and
>> stayed that way for days! They actually had a special light
>> and temperature controlled room for when this happened.
>>
>
> Give it up, guys. I know you mean well, but what
> you're doing is trying to explain the concept of
> gourmet food to someone who has been eating horse-
> meat tacos and frijoles so long that he has come
> to believe they *are* gourmet food.
And here I thought he ate prairie dog tacos! Richard makes a great
punching bag some days but you're probably right you can't knock any
sense into him. Most of everything in the meditation method of TM can
be found in a book or two published by Swami Sivananda in the 1930s and
that is just one example. The reason so many teachers give shaktipat as
part of the meditation instruction is so the student can instantly
transcend and it sets up the mind for transcending with practicing the
mantra.
