--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not quite that simple :-) In the final stages it is possible to > > "transcend" for four hours at a time, effortlessly. One sits down, > > decides how long they will meditate and finishes when they intend > > to. > > sounds very blissful, more so than I can possibly imagine. But why > would you want to do that? What is the motivation, the benefit? > That I don't get.
It's a different paradigm, Jim. In other traditions, there is NOT the TM idea that thoughts in meditation are valuable and an indication that "something good is happening," and that stress is being released. In fact, the paradigm is completely the opposite, that thoughts in meditation are an indication that the practitioner is simply being lazy, and has not learned to focus his or her attention. In such a tradition, the more time spent in samadhi, the better. Having practiced both styles of meditation, I can attest to the fact that using certain styles of focused or concentrative meditation, one can pretty much enter samadhi at will and have it last for twenty minutes, an hour, or several hours, with no thoughts present. For the dyed-in-the-wool TMer, convinced that the absence of thoughts indicates an absence of "progress," this might not be an admirable thing. For me, it's more than admirable, and preferable. If I'm gonna meditate, I'd rather spend most if not all of my time in meditation in the transcendent. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
