Tuesday, March 2, 2010

third eye

Question
Thanks...I'm assuming then, that you do indeed experience these *advanced* experiences but no mention is made of them.

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What role, if any, do the third eye and the chakras play in  Transcendental Meditation, does MMY mention them? As a meditator will I ever experience them?  Thanks....

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Billy, Thank you for your question.



Third eye and chakras play no role in either the Transcendental Meditation or Natural Stress Relief techniques.



Many schools of meditation that lack efficiency (the direct experience of samadhi), try to compensate by putting emphasis on advanced experiences such as these. As a practitioner of TM, you will have all the advanced experiences, but you will not be hung up on them and thereby risk missing enlightenment. Instead, you will enjoy increasing normalcy of the nervous system in a natural way, leading to fullness of life in bliss consciousness. Any other practice is "toys for children" in the words of Maharishi.



I hope this brief answer has helped. Please feel free to submit followup questions, if any.



David Spector




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There is a lot of confusion about what experiences are "advanced" and what experiences result from the elimination of stress from the nervous system. I'm not even sure that this distinction is, in the long run, a useful one.



It should be sufficient to say that the goal is a simple one: a normal, fully functional nervous system, free from stress, strong and healthy. If TM is sufficient to bring us such a normal nervous system (and I believe it is), then all experiences we need to have will come to us, and all knowledge we need will also be there, within us. Focusing on anything in the relative, including chakras, energy flows, subtle nervous systems, and siddhis, before our time is ripe, is worse than only a distraction: it can prevent us from reaching our goal, which is nothing less than infinity.



David