Vaj wrote: > > samadhi : becoming free of all transmutations > > (nirvikAra), maintaining the vrtti of being > > identical with Brahman, then forgetting the > > ry vrtti. > > Lawson wrote: > More like water within water. > >From what I've read, the word Samadhi does not occur in the ten major Upanishads upon which Sankara has commented.
Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: Willytex Date: Wed, Jul 23 2003 11:26 pm Subject: Samadhi http://tinyurl.com/272dpe According to Shankara, duality is only temporarily obliterated in Samadhi. Duality reappears when one comes out of yoga enstasis and the reason why duality persists is because false knowledge has not been removed. The attainment of Samadhi is not a sufficient cause to eradicate false knowledge, and since false knowledge is the cause of bondage, Samadhi cannot therefore be the cause of liberation. Samadhi: 1. Sanskrit (Saúmaúdhi) n. Jap., sanmai or zanmai 2. Nirvana, Parinirvana 3. from the root word 'Sam', to establish, make firm. 4. A conscious experience that lies beyond waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. 5. A non-meditative meditative mental equipose. Newsgroups: alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan, talk.religion.buddhism,alt.zen, alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy From: Lawson English Date: Wed, May 30 2007 3:16 pm Subject: Re: The Mechanics of Samadhi and the "fundamental luminosity of the mind" http://tinyurl.com/ysm9le Selectively chosen to ignore all rseearch on TM dated after 1980 or so and the one source it cites after that time isn't even original research but itself a survey of research on many different techniques of meditation.
