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| Re: captive audiences, an alternative view -- roark | Top of thread | Post Reply | Forum |
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That was a nice story about Thomas Edison and i liked your description of how 'intelligence can emanate out of the deep end of the pool' - perhaps Tarvuist might find that more acceptable than my 'knowing when you don't know'. I just looked up introspection and meditation in the dictionary - introspection is actually the simpler word meaning examination of ones thoughts and feelings whereas meditation is more complex meaning thinking deeply, discoursing on a particular subject, making a specific plan or it means to focus one's mind for religious spiritual or relaxation purposes. So I guess the question is what makes that hour or two that you sit different from an hour or two sitting on the verandah. What are you focusing your mind on? Most meditation techniques are chanting, inner chanting (mantra) or breath. oh I suppose focusing on a specific spot like a chakra or the ones we did - our inner ear? If you are just sitting quietly and waiting to see what comes up then that's introspection. If the way you get to be sitting quietly is by employing a meditation technique then are you still meditating or does it turn to introspection? My observation as a relatively new premie is that if it weren't for Maharaji I wouldn't have made the effort to meditate so consistently - I only did it because I believed it was fundamentally important to do, but if I hadn't believed that I wouldn't have done it so much, it would have been a casual thing, like having a go with a ouija board or whatever. So there i am, Ms PremieJi, grateful that I had been inspired to commit to meditation so that now I had this experience which I would never have got to otherwise. Actually the perseverance was mine. It was a positive delight to undo all the stitches and get back to normal operation - I am naturally inclined to need plenty of introspection - and now I could get back to it business as normal. For the first three weeks I would wake up and think time to meditate and then remember I didn't have to, sigh happily and relax back and have a nice bit of introspection aka snoozing instead.  |
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