--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > snip > > > > 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. > > On the first part of my TTC which was being run by Al > Burns (?) he mentioned, in another context, about MMY > "coming up with" his "theory" of stress release. I > remember feeling completly unsettled because I had > just assumed that MMY's explanation was some sort of > ancient explaination that was commonly understood by > all spiritual practioners.
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