--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 10, 2006, at 3:56 AM, Ingegerd wrote: > > > When I learned TM (Deep Meditation) in 1962, by the first meditation > > teacher in Norway, we learned to concentrate about the Mantra. Some > > years after - the instruction became "Don't concentrate", and the > > checking points came out. > > Ingegerd > > That's interesting. > > I was just looking over the instruction materials which will be used > for the Shamatha Project, a one year project where people will learn > a TM-style of meditation and then practice for a year while they are > examined via, EEG, fMRI, PET scans, etc. for changes. Instead of > using a "canned" meditation method, they will actually learn three > methods of Shamatha from those using effort/focus on a meditative > object to those which are effortless. Now whether or not they will > ask that just one be used for the research, I don't know, but they're > teaching all three to give students the opportunity to fine tune > what's best for them. I liked the idea of a continuum of practice > rather than a fixed practice. The idea may be to progress from effor/ > focus to true effortlessness as the student is able or if the student > is able. >
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