Om.. Promoting Petulance and Suffering? That would be shear and incredible ignorance and vile on your part. It's just bad science, bad spirituality and bad behavior. Even with all your fancy philosophy you clearly don't understand what you are saying. Don't play with Mother Nature, as the saying goes. -Buck in the Dome
Turquoiseb writes: Curtisdeltablues writes: Buck writes: It is wonderful that you are meditating again. C: Glad you approve Buck. I am hopeful that you will be equally supportive of my new practice of doing sunyama on the phrase "world petulance, suffering and war" for a few minutes after each meditation. I am thinking of forming a group so we can all do this together. Tb: I am even more proactive, and am collecting funds to sponsor a yagya promoting "world petulance, suffering and war." I'm sure Buck will want to participate, just as he felt others here at FFL would want to participate in his. :-) Okay, fine, so now you and Sam Harris are atheistic transcendentalists in experience without poetry. And by your own experience, in shorthand, a “substitutor meditator” in spiritual practice, Evidently like Sam Harris. Welcome back, -Buck Curtisdeltablues writes: Buck writes: Yes, evidently Harris is a transcending meditator even as a Buddhist! That is wonderful. -Buck in the Dome Did you see that even CurtisDeltaBlues is a transcending meditator now that way too? It's all the same Unified Field once you get going. C: Although Sam Harris practices a form of meditation that came from the Buddhist traditions he does not self identify himself as a Buddhist. CurtisDeltaBlues [CDB] writes: I've been doing a mindfulness meditation the last month. I think I finally figured it out and how to do it in place of TM. Before the TM machine would just start up, but that is not happening now and the experience is distinctly different. I have noticed a lot of differences in how it makes me feel in activity from TM. In particular I am very pleased with the no coming "out" quality, even though the inner experience is as much of a shift of state in another way from what TM is. I'll keep at it as I find it very enjoyable in itself and it has not lead to any dissociation with my feelings in the way that TM seems to create. I have gone through a couple of cycles of doing TM and dropping it in the last few years due to not liking where it takes me. I'm glad I was able to figure out the differences so I can enjoy this as a new practice. i have purposely stayed away from reading much about it except to get a start with the practice. I am enjoying a practice without much of a model to shape it. I have a vague sense that I am becoming more aware of what right now means as a place to live my life from. That is about it. Probably too early to tell how I will feel about this meditation in a few months, but so far so good. I've been practicing 10 minutes with eyes closed and 5 with eyes open which is a contrast to my TM practice. It is engaging my mind MORE in the world, more awareness both during and after. It is distinctly different in orientation but just as pleasant as a version of gourmet consciousness. I always loved the experience of TM too, just not all the side effects. I don't really know how it will all turn out as we learn more about these practices from neuroscience, which one is better for me or not. I just know that I am all TMed up and am enjoying another approach to a state of mind to improve my mental orientation. I think it is worth a try to groove this in for a while to gain some of the benefits unique to this kind of practice. Any tips or insights, especially since you have a TM history and might know the issues TMers might have would be welcome. -CDB https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/382236 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/382236
