To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/05/07 19:40
Subject: Re: [K-list] Re: Empty head
From: Gloria Joy Greco
On 1999/05/07 19:40, Gloria Joy Greco posted thus to the K-list:
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>From: satu.sihvoATnospamfimnet.fi (Satu Sihvo)
>To: "Gloria Joy Greco" <lodpressATnospamintercomm.com>
>Cc: kundaliniATnospamList-Server.net
>Subject: [K-list] Re: Empty head
>Date: Fri, May 7, 1999, 2:14 PM
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>Gloria,
>
>What abou re-reading my mail about empty head :). To me there is not just
>one right way to meditate. Or just one right goal. I like the thought that
>serpents shed their skin every now and then - when the old ones have become
>too tight.
>
>Satu
>
>
>Satu wrote:
>>>Yeah. I see meditation as going into trance with the goal of getting better
>>>connected / getting more in presence etc... with Something. To my mind we
>>>live in some sort of trance most of the time. Perhaps it is the different
>>>inductions to deepen the everyday trance (or lighten it :)) that cause
>>>confusion. Some people use words (like reciting prayers) as an induction.
>>>One can observe thoughts or dance or have sex or use some breathing
>>>techniques or or or. And then comes the empty head (or it does not)...
>>>Not being "enlightened" I dare to go on :). The experience filling the
>>>empty head might be shaped more by the goal than by the induction method.
>>>Yeah, empty heads from cool to hot? Your opinion?
>
>Gloria wrote:
>> Your concept of the empty head isn't quite on target. One is not empty
>>as in nothing there, one is filled with light and love and really a very
>>supreme power of knowing. This isn't something you can really imagine so it
>>is better to simply do the spiritual work and allow it to manifest and
>>transform the experience.
>> The ceaseless meditation will give you the power to observe/witness life
>>and understand what is happening so that moment by moment you are dealing
>>with the direct awareness of the process. Gloria
Gloria:
People often have a sort of meditation while driving, in the shower, as
you say that place of trance like openess or empty head. Yet this is not the
same as the disciplined form of meditation practiced over months and years
while on the quest.
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