On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:54 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The first time I tried meditation which was some three years before > learning TM my kundalini rose (it was like going up into the middle of > the Sun). This from a mantra in a book which morphed as I practiced > it. By the time I came to TM I had tried other techniques and had read > Ramana Maharishi teachings extensively. I did TM to find out what an > institutionalized program was like. Even prior to the kundalini > experience I had spiritual experiences as a child. My guru says this is > an indicator that I was on the path in previous lifetimes. I believe > this as I have run into TM practitioners who say even after 30 years > they have yet to have a clear experience of transcending. I wonder if my experience with TM is common: For the first 10 minutes I am at a very specific place with regard to being aware of my surroundings, my body, and my surface thoughts. Then as if on cue, the second ten minutes I drop down into a noticably deeper place, thick with silence, rest, and inner spheres of being. Just curious what others' experiences are and if they've had experience of this marked 10 minute boundary. Been going like that for years.:- )
I had already had clear experiences as a child. But with TM I would only transcend at most 4, 5 minutes absolute max. But once I had a clear awakening up to the heart, white hot completing the circuit with spontaneous mudras down the arms. Immediately thereafter I shot up to transcending 10 minutes or longer. Eventually I realized the only the thing that was blocking further progress was the subliminal idea I held somewhere that said I couldn't. As soon as it was realized that held-idea was empty of substantiality, impediments just dropped away and I could go up to 35 minutes max transcendent. If I maintain a steady practice I can go up to three hours now. If I'm not well rested, I have to take breaks and can't sustain the straight 2.5 - 3. Beyond that I began to work with, eyes open and going for hours, days or weeks.
I do a lot of walking meditation now.
