Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Laughing With, At and At/With
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Laughing With, At and At/With
Sounds like the perfect duality of CC. There is
Self/nothingness/consciousness and then everything
else which has this flat or false quality to it. As
if it isn't real at all. I used to call it the
cardboard world. No substance to it. It all hung like
a tiny basket within That.
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Peter
The experiece was very confusing to have and moreso
to describe. If I
were the one doing the witnessing, I would
experience myself as
separate from Being. This was not that. I would be,
say, standing and
talking to someone, see them, see their mouth
moving, hear the words
but they seemed puppetlike and along with that I was
very aware of
them as separate from Beimg and Being seemed
pervasive.
That's as good as I can describe it.
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I have/had an experience for a few months and on
and
off since, that
left me baffled and I spoke directly to
Maharishi
about it on a coufse
back in 1980. My experience was one in which
while I
was standing
there talking to someone I experienced that they
were separate from
Being. The way I described it to Maharishi was,
it
was as if when I
looked at another person I experienced that they
were witnessing.
Maharishi told me that this was growing Unity
consciousness.
Can you detail your experience some more? I don't
quite understand it. You experienced others as
separate from Being meaning they were outside of
or
distinct from Self, as if other? What do you
mean
by, ...that they were witnessing?
If I'm understanding your experience correctly, it
sounds more like growing CC than UC, but I'll wait
for
your response !
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The first is that I am
*immensely* grateful that, unlike them,
I
have had my own
experiences of enlightenment
But apparently not the There is no
me-versus-them,
we-are-all one-experience...
Actually, even though it's being asked by
the
Judybot,
I'll deal with this one. :-)
That is correct. I have had quite a few
experiences
that map to what TMers might call 'CC.' I
have
had
other experiences that don't map to anything
that has
*ever* been mentioned in a TM context, but
were
pretty
neat. But as it turns out I have neither
had,
nor have
I ever sought, any experience that could in
any
way be
descried as there is no me-vs-them, we are
all
one.
I suspect that this description has almost
nothing to
do with real experiences of the direct
perception of Unity.
In other words, what I think Judy is
describing
is a
guess, *from the point of view of someone
who
hasn't
even experienced CC*, of what Unity might be
like.
Actually not. Not only is it a frequently
reported
experience on this forum (odd that you've
somehow
managed to miss it) and elsewhere, but I've
had it
myself on occasion. I don't know whether it's
a
direct perception of Unity, but then I
didn't
claim
it was. It *is* an experience of perceiving
the
Self
in others.
Me, I consider her description NewAgeSpeak
at
its
worst, so admit with some *pride* to never
having
experienced anything like it.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that with a bit of
searching, I could find posts of yours in
which
you've said something very much like this.
Carry on... :-)
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Laughing With, At and At/With
On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:08 AM, jim_flanegin wrote:So, the same with akashanon. He actually prefers "Akashic Moose". To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Laughing to Enlightenment
That's it! The only problem with *reading* these explanations is that you get the sense of this long, involved process whereas, in practice and once learned, one can do it simply and quickly. On 9/30/05 9:47 AM, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following is the basic Inner Smile practice, taken from several of Mantak Chia's books: Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao, pp.21-28; Taoist Ways to Transform Stress into Vitality, pp.40-58; and Awaken Healing Light of the Tao, pp.88-103. For more detail, and also to see how this meditation relates to other, more advanced, techniques, consult these books. Preparation For The Inner Smile Wait at least an hour after eating to begin the practice. Choose a quiet spot. Later on (as you become more experienced) you will be able to practice almost anywhere with any noise. Dress warmly enough not to be chilled. Sit comfortably near the edge of your chair with your feet flat on the floor. Keep your back straight, but not stiff. Stay relaxed, and clasp your hands together in your lap, left palm on bottom, right palm on top. Close your eyes and become aware of the soles of your feet. Feel their connection to the ground and the energy of the earth. Create a source of smiling energy up to three feet in front of you. This can be an image of your own smiling face, or of someone or something you love and respect, or any memory of a time in which you felt deeply at peace, perhaps feeling sunshine, being by the ocean, or walking in a forest. Become aware of the midpoint between your eyebrows through which you will draw this abundant smiling energy in front of and around you. Let your forehead relax, and allow the Third Eye to open. As the smiling energy accumulates at the mid-eyebrow, it will eventually overflow into your body. Smiling Down The Organs - The Front Line Allow the smiling energy to flow down from the mid-eyebrow through your face, relaxing the cheeks, nose, mouth, and all the facial muscles. Let it flow down through your neck. You can roll your head slowly and gently from side to side as you do this. The Thymus Gland. Let the smiling energy flow down to your thymus gland, which is located behind the upper part of your sternum, and picture it glowing with vibrant health. Feel the thymus gland become warm as it begins to vibrate and expand like a flower blossoming. The Heart. Feel the stream of relaxation flow down into your heart. People who are nervous or who anger quickly often experience pain and tense feelings in and about the heart. Extending the smile relieves stored tension and enables a new kind of functioning to take place. Spend as much here as you need to feel the heart relax and expand with loving energy. This expansion will feel like a flower blossoming. Fill your heart with love. Let your heart be your sweetheart. The Lungs. Radiate the love in your heart to your lungs. Feel your lungs soften and breathe with new ease. feel the air inside lighten up as it enters and leaves the lungs. Feel their moist spongy quality as you relax and fill your lungs with energy. The Liver. Now smile into your liver on the right side, just below the rib cage. If your liver is hard, if it is difficult to feel, soften it with your smile. Smile it back to life, rejuvenate it with your love. The Pancreas. Let the smiling energy now flow across the abdomen to the pancreas, which is located within the left lower rib cage. Thank it for its work, and see that it is healthy and functioning smoothly. The Spleen. Continuing around to the left, smile into the spleen. Don't worry if you don't know exactly where it is. If you smile in that direction you will gradually get in touch with it. If you need to, return to the source of smiling energy in front of you, and let it flow through the mid-eyebrow and down to the area of the spleen. As smiling, loving energy builds up in the spleen, let it flow into the kidneys. The Kidneys. Direct the smile to your two kidneys, in your lower back just below the rib cage on either side of the spine. The adrenal glands sit on top of them. Smile at your adrenals, and they may send you a burst of adrenalin. The kidney is the lower transformer of the veins and arteries. Smile to the kidneys and fill them with love. Like the heart, this will increase the flow of chi circulating through the body. Next, send the smiling energy into the urinary bladder, urethra, genitals, and perineum. Smiling Down The Digestive System - The Middle Line Smile once more in your eyes. Smile down into your mouth and swish your tongue around to collect saliva. When your mouth is filled with saliva, put the tip of your tongue to your palate, tighten your neck muscles, and swallow hard and quickly, making a gulping sound as you do. With your inner smile follow the saliva down your oesophagus, through your internal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Laughing to Enlightenment
On 9/30/05 10:07 AM, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats interesting. SRSS gives out a similar technique* for waking state -- where one yells such to get rid of problems or inner obstacles. When giving it, he said something like, but you will forget this technique, even though it is valuable. And true to form, I usually forget about it. Your post just reminded me. Does SSRS consider MMY as his guru--or does he have another teacher (or was SSRS one of MMY's teachers...)? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Laughing to Enlightenment
On 9/30/05 9:57 AM, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the best spiritual practices I ever received was called The Inner Smile. One of the people I learned it from had gone to China to study under some Taoist master who taught rare, very advanced practices which were still kept very secret. Of course he had some concern after traveling to this remote region that he might be rejected and he wouldn't get the teachings he sought. After meeting the teacher and requesting the teachings he desired the teacher said to him, simply do you know how to smile at yourself? The student, who had practiced the Inner Smile as part of his practice for a long time, immediately broke out into a smile realizing what the teacher was referring to. Oh yes he responded. He got the teaching he requested. Meat. There was a short period about five years ago when I was having some issues in the dream plane. I almost NEVER have nightmares, and haven't for my entire life, so when badass demon types start showing up in my dreams and trying to kill me, and it's the same badasses every night, I pay attention. Some- thing is going on. As it happened, I described what was going on to a friend of mine who was studying with a Taoist herb master, and my friend passed along a mantra that had been given to him especially for dispelling evil forces or demons. My friend told me what the mantra was, and that night I went to sleep and the badasses showed up again, and I managed to get lucid in the dream and shout out the mantra at them. It was impressive, to say the least. They caught fire and burned up, leaving nothing but flakes of ash, like after you burn a pile of autumn leaves. I've never had those particular badasses or any other seemingly malevolent being appear in my dreams since. What makes this story relevant in a funny way is that the mantra was HA. Yup, HA, as in ha ha. It means something totally different in Chinese, of course, but I have been amused ever since that the thing that can make malevolent spirits burn up and go away is basically laughing at them. :-) Hehehe. They hate silence too. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
