--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another good reason to use an email program rather than a web browser > to answer your mail! :-) > > In any event, the point here is that unless one is doing a non- dual > form of quiescence/transcendence meditation, there will--by it's very > nature always be not only some dualism or some subtle meditational > "effort" involved. In the example you give of your own personal > practice the level of "patching" (consciously returning again and > again) has been achieved and the level of "closeness" has been > arrived upon. By "closeness" this means you are very "close" to the > transcendent and the mind, even on assuming an outward stroke, "stays > close" to the transcendent and habitually reacquires it's object (the > mantra), however gross or subtle depends on the person and where on > the outward stroke they "reacquire" it. > > Nonetheless these two levels of transcendent practice constitute what > is generally called "mindfulness", although most TMers will not > understand this as such--that's what they really are. > > In this instance I am comparing the practice of transcendental > meditation with a 9-fold model of total quiescence (mentioned here > before). "Closeness" represents the 4th level in that model. >
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