--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah but I never said what he is alluding to, that an absence of > thoughts is indicative of a lack of progress during TM. I'm not > sure where he got the idea, but it wasn't from me. > > In my reply above I was just agreeing with peter that I've not heard > MMY say anything regarding this either.
Nor have I. I *have*, however, heard it from TMers I was checking or working with at residence courses. I've had meditators in checking express *concern* that they're "transcending all the time...does this mean I'm not releasing any stress?" My original point was merely that the strong TM dogma that thoughts mean that "some- thing good is happening" *can* be interpreted by some to mean that thoughts are actually to be desired in meditation. Some traditions don't believe this, that's all. As I originally said, they believe that whether or not one experiences a lot of thoughts during meditation is *completely* within the control of the meditator, and since in their view samadhi is a potentially more valuable way to spend one's time in meditation than thoughts, why waste time in thought. 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/
