--- In [email protected], billy jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rory, > > Yeh, I've heard pretty good things about FF, the place. Somehow I've been thinking more about FF over the past few months, perhaps because I've received some remarkably advanced teachings into the ultimate nature of awareness from this tibetan lama I've been working with lately. > > What strikes me about these advanced teachings is the direct access that they give to the field of pure awareness for tm or sahaj meditators. It has caused me to realize that tm is not a prepratory training for more advanced yogic pracitices. In my judgement, tm is a principal foundation practice. The process of transcending in tm gives direct experience of the course, subtle, subtlest and causal levels of awareness. When practiced without interruption over a few years through steady meditation practice, these finer fields of awareness become quite awake. My experience is that just by receiving the direct pointing-out instructions of the mahamudra and dzogchen teachings, tm meditators dissolve into the field of pure awareness in a mere eye-blink. From that field they remain, awakened and ready to see deeply into this mysterious world of experience and freedom. > > So I keep thinking - what a wonderfully deep field of human beings who are already waking up in the great expanse - and in such a natual manner. The tibetans never had it so good. > > We'll see.
Yes, empty! I completely share your newfound deep respect for those original teachings of TM. For many years after "Awakening" part of me was subtly kicking myself for having spent so many years using a path to ignore the Self-evident Indescribable, even though it had obviously all been perfect, but over the last 3-4 years I've come to see what a phenomenal complacency and self-sufficient arrogance I have imbibed with "Brahman" -- and that *all* the unfoldments since then have been simple continuations of those same original teachings of transcendence (TM) and manifestation (sidhis), all the inevitable flow of grace of the Self to the Self. On the basis of knowing them as my Self, my appreciation of MMY and Guru Dev are finally perhaps approaching some infinitesimal part of the infinite devotion they have always deserved. It so much fun being the particle, the creature, the student, for from here we can really appreciate the divine unboundedness of our simple ordinary self, the creator, the guru! :-)
