On Jul 6, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Patrick Gillam wrote: > Vaj wrote: >> >> "is non-ideation" an object of meditation? >> >> My feeling is it can be. > > What's non-ideation? No mantra, no thought?
Attentional stability with vividness, no laxity and pure mindfulness might be a description to use. In general terms it is just a calm state meditation, like TM, Shamatha, etc. > >> In some schools of meditation, once the calm state is achieved, >> recognized and made stable, we move on to integrating thought with >> calm >> and then eventually simply experiencing thoughts and movement as >> non-dual. > > In "some schools"? I thought the description above > applied to everything we talk abut here. IMO, no. Many forms of meditation deal with just the first method and state described: the calm state, the "transcendent", etc. I guess one might say the TMSP begins to work at integration of thought and emptiness. 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/
