--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor"
> <matrixmonitor@> wrote:
> >
> > ---the people you mention - living in cages. They should
practice
> TM
> > regularly and buy all the CD's & DVD's relating to Ramana
Maharshi
> > from http://www.arunachala.org
> > What do you suggest....some type of mood-making to grok "I'm out
of
> > the cage, out of the cage, out of the cage....."? i.e. a
> > reorientation of one's thinking to consider that "one" is not in
the
> > cage. But if the person still thought he was in the cage, could
> > he/she get Enlightened anyway?
>
> I can only say what worked for me; a burning thirst, hunger, desire
to
> get out of the bondage that I felt accutely- a desire that
transcended
> money, sex, formal education, friendship, death, food, sleep,
relative
> happiness of any kind. And complete and utter surrender to that
which
> I intuited would set me free. And frequent prayer and study of
> spiritual teaching. And regular TM, morning and evening for 30
years.
> And the Siddhis programme to burn out some big stuff, for 15 years.
> And always being true to myself, no matter what. And no dogma or
> organized anything to follow- just me, in the slowly blooming
desert
> of my consciousness, from the age of ten to the age of fifty. And I
> was in the cage of my making, right up until the moment I wasn't.
That
> is what worked for me.:-)
>
Wonderful Jim ! Thanks for sharing this.
