NOT A SINGLE ONE OF US EVER KNOWS FOR SURE WHAT LIES AHEAD!<\/p>\n
Snap-your-fingers and your life changes. \u00a0Maybe your life changes a lot (you instantly and totally unexpectedly die) or maybe your life changes just a tiny bit (you gain some new-to-you but very interesting and important-to-you information) and maybe it is somewhere in between these extremes .. suddenly you trip and you fall and your life changes drastically .. just ask our friend ‘Zilla about that!<\/p>\n
Recently I visited a Doctor’s Office where I have not been before (except one time several years ago to accompany Patti). \u00a0I pick up a magazine that I have never seen nor heard of before ..<\/p>\n
Let’s hear it for: \u00a0DETAILS MAGAZINE dated October 2012.<\/p>\n
I am pretty sure that not too many of you .. IF any of you .. have heard of DETAILS MAGAZINE.<\/p>\n
Not wanting to ‘be-in-the-now’ as to precisely why I was in the Doctor’s Office I begin to glance at the cover.<\/p>\n
Um-m-m-m .. “What is this about?” I think to myself as I notice one of the ‘cover stories’.<\/p>\n
DEATH BY MEDITATION .. THE DANGERS OF SEEKING SPIRITUAL PERFECTION<\/p>\n
Subtitle .. DEATH ON THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT<\/p>\n
Author .. Scott Carney<\/p>\n
And my mind drifted back to March of 1991. \u00a0I was in the YMCA in New Delhi in India and Ron .. a friend I had met in India .. asked me if I would join him in going to an ashram to study meditation.<\/p>\n
I thought .. “Hot Dog! \u00a0Meditation! \u00a0Sign me up!”<\/p>\n
We left the next day and ‘out and off’ the two of us went to Jaipur to the Vipassana Meditation Center.<\/p>\n
Allow me to\u00a0EMPHASIZE\u00a0that this was in March of\u00a01991!<\/p>\n
There is some chance (5%) that today it is not like it was over twenty years ago back in 1991. \u00a0There is a better chance (95%) it is still the same!<\/p>\n
The ‘course’ was a ten-day course. \u00a0The fee: no cost. Fee-free!<\/p>\n
THE RULES:<\/p>\n
No eye-contact. \u00a0No talking. You could LISTEN! \u00a09PM bedtime. You ‘slept’ on a very challenging (slate?) surface. \u00a04AM awake. Meditate. Mid-morning some milk and rice. \u00a0Meditate. \u00a0Mid-afternoon a piece or two of fruit. \u00a0Meditate.<\/p>\n
I said to myself: \u00a0Sensory deprivation. \u00a0Food deprivation. \u00a0Sleep deprivation. \u00a0No exercise. \u00a0WHO WOULDN’T SEE-THE-WHITE-LIGHT AFTER TEN DAYS OF THIS!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n I left. \u00a0Ron stayed for the full ten days. \u00a0Then Ron re-enlisted for I think a second far-more-intense forty day session. \u00a0Ron loved it. Ron freaked out over it in a positive way. \u00a0I freaked out over it in a negative way. \u00a0As in NO\u00a0WAY! Mister Sheriff I am outta-heah!<\/p>\n (CONTINUE DOWN TO PART II BELOW)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NOT A SINGLE ONE OF US EVER KNOWS FOR SURE WHAT LIES AHEAD! Snap-your-fingers and your life changes. \u00a0Maybe your life changes a lot (you instantly and totally unexpectedly die)… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-omnibus","category-we-never-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80254,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions\/80254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}