--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can't speak to the japa issue. Seems reasonable, > though. Other comments interleaved below. > > --- Mark <msilver1951@> wrote: > > > > Is it possible that the criticism of > > TM, that it doesn't accomplish anything for > > many is because the Being by > > it's nature doesn't do anything > > I would agree with this ^, and suggest a wrinkle. > > Consciousness is flat and transparent. Hence, as > a rule, we don't notice it. But "Maharishi says" > (couldn't resist) pure consciousness is the source > and substrate of activity, and the greater one's > awareness of consciousness, the more of that > life-supporting effect influences our activity. > > With me so far? > > What I'm getting at is this. If a person doesn't > notice anything from TM, is it because > consciousness is by nature flat and unnoticeable, > or because consciousness is for some reason > not enriching that person's activity, or because > the whole consciousness-activity link is fallacious? > Or what? > > (I suppose one could argue that TM doesn't allow > one to experience silent, flat awareness to begin > with, too.) > > > but must be enjoined with a relative agent > > such as a mantra that would give It a relative focus. > > I thought the TM-Sidhi program was supposed > to provide some faint relativity against which to > notice consciousness moving. It's the activity in > the bathwater that makes one notice the water's > warm, so to speak. > I have found through the years, of meditating; That in the beginning, transending does seem brief and 'flat'. But, with continued practice, it begins to enliven, and take on a depth. This depth continues to increase. The depth of the experience of pure consciousness, is hard to explain in relative terms; because it's really not dependent on anything of a relative nature. In other words it is just your own awareness itself, woken up; and you begin to notice a greater depth to it, as your experience of it, opens up more and more. The brain begins to function as a whole; both the left and right hemispheres of the brain sychronize. The thought process begins to take a back seat, to the 'Witnessing' process; That is, when the depth of being is held in the awareness spontaneously; That experience in and of itself, is blissful; Because the mind is quiet and full( whole brain functioning) And mostly the energy goes to the heart: Which has become free to observe and to feel the moment; In all of it's glory...
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