Reading some of the teachings at the advaitist sites abounding on the net,it's easy to get drawn into the idea that there is nothing to do as we are already realized beings,in fact it's amazing how in the last 5 years all these so called teachers of truth have appeared from the west.

Well dont let them fool you,intellectual realization is easy but actually feeling it 100% is another matter,it's very easy to decide .OH im already what im seeking so I dont need to do a darned thing,well I think ill stick with my daily NSR practice and let the rest happen.

Just had to get that off my chest:)

Chris,

I believe you are referring to the Advaita philosophy (sometimes called non-dualism), which deals with life lived in the unity of the self (which is active in the world) and the Self (which is established in unbounded silence). NSR brings fulfillment to the philosophies known as Advaita and Vedanta by establishing life on the ground of freedom from stress.

The philosophy that "we are already enlightened; we don't have to do anything to get there" is a popular one but is not particularly helpful, even though it derives from an actual expression of the reality of life as lived in enlightenment.

Imitating the attitudes and statements of those who are living in enlightenment (who do not have to do anything to reach enlightenment) does not lead to inner growth.

It is not by pretending that we are living in Unity that we gain enlightenment, but by practicing transcending on a regular basis. Each session of NSR releases stresses and allows our nervous system to become stronger and to experience the skill of silence better. As a result, life becomes easier and more fulfilling.

The truth of one state of consciousness is not the truth of another state. So long as we are living with stress rather than unbounded inner silence, our interpretations and understanding of the philosophies of enlightenment will always be muddled.

As you have noticed, there is a big difference between experiencing transcending and merely having an intellectual understanding of it, just as, for someone who has never tasted one, there is a big difference between having the experience of eating a strawberry and merely reading a detailed description of the taste of a strawberry.

Thanks for sharing your insight. It is a good one.

David Spector
Natural Stress Relief/USA

as far as my knowlege it is one of the most beautiful and very deep philosophy of all times. it is so powerful that it can make anybody bound to think and believe in it considered not misinterpreteded.it tells that everything in this universe is just a physical manupulation of a supreme power. we are just reflectors of it.i,me,you,us,nothing exists according to this philopsophy.for example, consider the reflection of moon on a calm water surface. and suddenly a stone is dropped and ripples are created. each ripple still holds the reflection of the moon and even the drops of water in the splash. we are nothing just physical manufastation of that supreme soul.it is going to be what is called religion of the future.even we in ourselves has some reflectors and they help us to project the supreme one in our own way and that is what we call or misunderstand as i.

In this dream during sleep the other night, there were these people floating on a stormy sea in a little boat. This bearded man was saying that it was all an illusion - "maya" - and that the true reality was nothing at all like that situation. Most didn't believe him, because they could SEE the reality of where they were - the high waves, the cold water, the boat tossing about in the wind. But some did like his teaching, and they enthusiastically embraced this new belief that their reality was not "real" at all. They now understood that in reality they were on dry land, at home, enjoying their families, and this stormy ocean situation was simply an illusion. So they stepped off the "non-real" boat they were on ... and they drowned.

However, a few non-believers of this philosophy woke up some time later from their dream state of consciousness, and emerged into the waking state, where their whole nervous system functioned differently. In that waking state they experienced "for real" that the stormy ocean situation truly HAD been a dream. But they had no need to step off the boat to celebrate this new understanding (and drown), for there no longer WAS any boat, nor any sea. They were in a different state of consciousness where that dream no longer was their current reality.

An effective meditation process - like TM and NSR - cultures the nervous system little by little each day and takes one progressively towards more refined and clearer states of consciousness, where reality changes, experientially, not simply in intellectual understanding. So, I agree with Chris and I intend to continue my twice-daily stress-dissolving sessions while I live and enjoy and experience my daily reality as it is at that time.


Gavin
TM meditator/sidha