[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-27 Thread pranamoocher
The big secret is to bring lots of kleenex and keep it handy. All that nostril breathing can stir up quite a storm, so to speak. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.p...@... wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:22 PM, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Just stay with your

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-27 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.p...@... wrote: The Uvalde, Texas SSRS ranch relented and agreed to give me my own room so I will not have to reveal to the world the fact that I can't fly. So I'm about to sign up for the Art of Silence course over the Labor Day

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: When I do my TM, I keep losing my mantra, have to come back to awareness of and start it over again. They have mantra insurance now -- that provides

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread vajradhatu108
Sounds like a great time, please keep us posted! I'm sure there are a number of people who could share stories and I hope they do so here. The nice thing about having a lineage is 'there's always more than one person you can hang with.' We have the popular SSRS ashram nearby in Montreal, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread emptybill
Unless the program has changed, you'll be doing various intro techniques and then you'll do a group, long Kriya (at least at the beginning). Afterward, you'll get introduced to Hollow and Empty practice - a guided but direct-experience practice involving the subtle nadi-chakras. As far as losing

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: snip As far as losing the mantra, it sounds like you could use a dose of instruction in SSRS's Sahaj Samadhi meditation. TM, as now taught and practiced, is not the same as what I received in 19'70. If losing the mantra is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread Tom Pall
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:44 PM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: As far as losing the mantra, it sounds like you could use a dose of instruction in SSRS's Sahaj Samadhi meditation. TM, as now taught and practiced, is not the same as what I received in 19'70. This has been observed by a

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread emptybill
Just stay with your commitment to try the course. Talk with the Sahaj teacher if you want. However, it sounds like you're looking for a parachute because you want to bail before the course even starts. Elated one minute, anxious the next ... wtf. Just give it a chance and take it like it is. ---

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread Tom Pall
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:22 PM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Just stay with your commitment to try the course. Talk with the Sahaj teacher if you want. However, it sounds like you're looking for a parachute because you want to bail before the course even starts. Elated one minute,

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread emptybill
Tom, Don't think too much about. I don't do Sahaj either although I sat in with my daughters class.There are differences although the consensus among former TM teachers is that most people continuing with the original TM are already abiding spontaneously in that more subtle instruction (really