--- In [email protected], satvadude108 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > That InnerKids foundation looks very cool. > Thanks for the heads up. I'd never heard > of it. An MBSR instructor I know tells me > kids take to Mindfullness instruction > amazingly fast. > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 27, 2009, at 10:31 AM, grate.swan wrote: > > > > > Provind a pure meditation method is what I am discussing and > > > proposing. > > > > > > No you're not. You're being an apologist for a religious form of > > meditation, plain and simple. There's nothing "pure" about it, unless > > of course you meant purely Hindu. > > > > If you want a non-sectarian form of meditation and attentional skills > > for children, you need look no further than the InnerKids Foundation. > > No mumbo jumbo Hindu initiation rituals. no repeating bija-aksharas > > of Hindu devatas. No faux-physics, pilot research, exaggeration or > > bias. Just awareness being aware of itself. Mindfulness is universal, > > the science is good and sound and the infrastructure is already in > > place. > > > I personally don't care which meditation technique the kids learn...just as long as they learn and are taught something which transcends the usually superficial nonsense they spend all of their time on... TM or Mindfulness; either is fine...perhaps one should be given the choice, as mindfulness is a Buddhist practice.
My sister practices mindfulness and she calls herself a Buddhist... So, is Buddhism a religion? Because when I ask my sister if she believes in God, so seems to explain the Buddha is not a God, and that mindfulness makes you aware of the nothingness of existence... So, in a way, it just seems like a form of 'Existentialism'. And in that case, we still are back to 'In God We Trust'...dollar as king of kings, queen of queens, and so on and so forth. So, I would assume that since Caesar's been running things, perhaps this Existential existence meditation, might fly better in the American schools. What I don't understand about Buddhism, is the belief in nothingness, and the belief in reincarnation... How could we have the 14th of one? Is the Dalai Lama like God, to the Buddhists? Who and what reincarnates? Does one have a specific soul, or is one soulless, what does Buddhism really teach about these things? R.G.
