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You can't sit still for 15 minutes with your arms in the air as he recommended for technique number 2. When people talked about tired arms, he said just rest them. Then start again. Waiting for your arms to ache too much to sustain the position, resting them till they'd recovered enough to start, doing it again till they ached too much, which isn't as long as the last time... this was no way conducive to concentration or relaxation. I was there when he described doing the techniques that way, and it seemed nuts, but not nuts enough for me to get up and walk away. I just used my knees. In the end, I gave up on all that malarkey, as just sitting very quietly seemed all that was needed. I did have pretty profound experiences meditating, but it was nothing to do with the techniques. I guess the techniques were important this way - that if you've sold yourself as the Perfect Master with the secret technique to connect directly to God, an initiation that was no more involved than sitting quietly might not have been a bit of a let-down.
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