[Buddha-l] FW: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies

[Curt Steinmetz]

Well as long as people are ragging on old Maharishi - it is common 
knowledge that many Tantric Buddhist initiations involve dire warnings 
about eternal damnation. There is plenty of craziness to go around - but 
anyone who goes nuts after doing any given practice probably had a head 
start. Caveat Meditator.

Curt

S.A. Feite wrote:
>
> On Feb 8, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Jackhat1 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Buddhist meditation teachings have had successful results for 
>> thousands of
>> years without mentioning kundalini and the other stuff in your email 
>> above. So,
>>  either the meditation instructions in TM are different from Buddhist 
>> mantra
>> meditation instruction or something else is going on.
>
>
> What type of Buddhist mantra meditation are you referring to?
>
> The whole idea of initiation in TM is that they perform a brief 
> prana-pratishtha ritual to imbibe the mantra with shakti and create a 
> link between the teachers shakti and the mantra. For that reason, a 
> few people who start TM do have spontaneous awakenings sometimes even 
> at the moment of initiation.
>
> I too have to say I've *never* seen any side effects from Buddhist 
> meditation--and certainly no kundalini problems even in Tsa-Lung 
> (nadi-vayu) practitioners, although they do warn things could go wrong 
> for some people.
>
> -Steve
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