[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana teaches how to meditate (Chopra's Intent blog)

2007-11-17 Thread Duveyoung
tertonzeno wrote: This is only true (no object sought, thus one gets straight to the Self) of more advanced persons. The vast majority will undoubtedly experience nothing but ordinary mental chatter, then become discouraged. TM cuts directly through the chatter. In any event, Self-Inquiry must

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana teaches how to meditate (Chopra's Intent blog)

2007-11-16 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:47 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: Duveyoung, if you think that what is described below is anything like TM, may I suggest to you that, perhaps, you never did TM properly? Since Nab's out for the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana teaches how to meditate (Chopra's Intent blog)

2007-11-16 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is Ramana's Dhyana instructions: sure sounds like TM IN ALL THE IMPORTANT ways, Are you insane? No wonder you play in traffic on a contraption designed to swerve into the path of oncoming cars. I got to about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana teaches how to meditate (Chopra's Intent blog)

2007-11-16 Thread feste37
Actually Edg, this is UNLIKE TM in all the important ways. Try reading it again. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is Ramana's Dhyana instructions: sure sounds like TM IN ALL THE IMPORTANT ways, and Ramana was not a Vedic scholar -- hardly

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana teaches how to meditate (Chopra's Intent blog)

2007-11-16 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:47 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: Duveyoung, if you think that what is described below is anything like TM, may I suggest to you that, perhaps, you never did TM properly? Since Nab's out for the rest of the day, I'll be glad to say it for him... Might I suggest a checking?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana teaches how to meditate (Chopra's Intent blog)

2007-11-16 Thread Duveyoung
These naysayer reactions to the words of Ramana show that so many posters here are woefully inept, and perhaps literally too dumb to mindfully read words and actually trying to have clarity about the Ramana's intent -- such that they resort to flaming to try to mask their failure at such

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana teaches how to meditate (Chopra's Intent blog)

2007-11-16 Thread Richard J. Williams
Duveyoung wrote: Below is Ramana's Dhyana instructions: sure sounds like TM IN ALL THE IMPORTANT ways, and Ramana was not a Vedic scholar -- hardly educated at all. Sri Ramana Maharshi: Concentrate on that one whom you like best. Concentration is counterproductive in reaching a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana teaches how to meditate (Chopra's Intent blog)

2007-11-16 Thread matrixmonitor
---More differences than similarities, chiefly: Self Inquiry involves mentation on meaning, at the initial level of experience. (in the advanced level of Self Inquiry, there's just the Self and no consideration of the meaning); but this is putting the cart before the horse, since the majority

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana teaches how to meditate (Chopra's Intent blog)

2007-11-16 Thread Duveyoung
Matrix, I think I see your point, but to me, when one asks the question: Who am I? yes, this is an act, a willfulness, but, unlike mantra-meditation, there is no object sought to be held in consciousness. The intellect and the heart do not get involved in Self Inquiry. The Self, not the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana teaches how to meditate (Chopra's Intent blog)

2007-11-16 Thread tertonzeno
---This is only true (no object sought, thus one gets straight to the Self) of more advanced persons. The vast majority will undoubtedly experience nothing but ordinary mental chatter, then become discouraged. TM cuts directly through the chatter. In any event, Self-Inquiry must absolutely be