--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "L B Shriver" 

[...]
> I have never in my life had anything like the experience of breath 
> suspension that I get from TM, by just sitting with my eyes closed. 
> The two are ENTIRELY different states of physiology, and if someone 
> measures me when I am in that state of breath suspension they will 
> wonder how my body is maintianed. There are yogi's who can sustain 
> it for days, with VERY low oxygen consumption. Mine is unstable and 
> I cannot cause it at will, but it is the same thing in lesser form.
> 

At least in TM, breath suspension is not associated with O2 
consumption. There are Buddhist techniques that can drastically lower 
O2 consumption, but I don't know if that is correlated with samadhi 
directly or not.






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