> > Besides, "shamantha" is just another variant on > > TM, similar to Tibetan Dzogchen... > > Vaj: > It's actually nothing like TM. Within a couple of > weeks Shamatha meditators were transcending for many > hours at a time. > It's just like 'TM': sitting meditation with a mental object with transcending at an early stages of practice.
The study involved thirty participants for three months at the Shambahala Mountain Center in Colorado, which is affiliated with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. I spent two years pracing at their center in Boulder, 1971-1973. Trungpa is the founder of Shambhala. He was the 11th descendent in the line of Trungpa tulkus, important teachers of the Kagyu lineage, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. This sect is renowned for its strong emphasis on basic meditation practice using the Tibetan meditation objects, such as bijas, images, etc. Shambhala Mountain Center: http://www.shambhalamountain.org/lineage Acknowledgements: "We thank Dr. Allen Kanner for psychological prescreening of participants, Dr. Shiri Lavy for group stratification, Eileen Bartosch of the Red Feather Lakes Medical Center for collecting blood samples, the Shambhala Mountain Center for program support..." Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators: http://tinyurl.com/3f7xywn
