--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "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. >
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