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done about it.
[A sannyasin says: All your lectures are making me so high, and I'm enjoying the meditations but I'm experiencing a lot of physical agitation. It's very hard to sleep and there are lots of heavy nightmares.]
That is a part of the process. The body and the mind are releasing things, deep repressed things which meditation brings up, but it is very good. You will feel so fresh and so weightless -- as if you can fly. Things are going perfectly well.
[The sannyasin then asks: I've always understood that all realms of consciousness are always and continuously available to us... I would never mindfully put myself into a place that was not pleasant and good for the others around me.
These groups seem to take people to very very sensitive places, and sometimes places that are not necessarily seeming to make them happy, and sometimes make it difficult for the people around them.
I'm interested in them and I'm just wondering if they're necessary to... ]
No, for you they are not. And that is exactly the right attitude. It is a question of where you put yourself, it is your choice, and all realms are always available.
These groups help people because people have become addicted to particular moods; for example, sadness. Once energy is available, a certain person simply moves into sadness. It has become a routine, and he does not know any other way. All other ways are blocked. He has forgotten about them.
It is as if you live in a big house and you know only about one room. You have lost the keys and you have completely forgotten that the house has many other rooms. These groups help to make living in the one room so impossible that they have to escape from there -- that is the whole point.
If somebody is angry, they allow them to go deeper into it -- so deep that the very experience becomes such a hell that one runs anywhere and stumbles into another room of the same house, about which one has become unaware. Once one enters, one knows that there is no need to go to the same room again and again; that there are other rooms available.
But for you there is no need. If you have this understanding,
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