On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:51 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:54 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> 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. > Sounds like pretty intense practice. After all of that empty mind time, what do you feel like during the day? Mellow, relaxed, energetic, introverted, extroverted? Just curious.:-)
I don't favor the introspective mode of meditation nearly as much. It's not intense at all, the breath slows way, way down. The first couple of years the body went through deep purification of some toxins. But all the introspection is good for is that it just increases the resolution of recognition and the level of integration of one in waking and other cycles of consciousness.
