--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First this: > Ok...you can go back to arguing about whose techniques > and belief systems are "best" now. I just wanted to > correct your misstatement of what I've said. Not my involvment, you know very well. > Just a couple of points: <snip> > You seem to have missed the posts in which I mentioned > that the techniques I'm talking about are *not* mindfulness, > which IMO definitely has a specific intent. In the techniques > I'm talking about, there is no intent and nothing to focus > on. It's merely a process of just *noticing* what is already > going on, *not* focusing on it or directing it in any way. > Nothing is "induced," nothing focused upon; Sorry to disagree, but the instruction 'to notice something' is certainly directing awareness. It most certainly is an induction as well. As the 'attention' is directed, it is also a form of mindfulness, maybe a rather easy one. > the only instruc- > tion is along the lines of "notice what is going on rather > than distract yourself from it." Yes, but it directs awareness. The instruction 'not to distract yourself from it', indeed uses subtle effort. > The instruction is needed only because most people in the > world *do* distract themselves from what is going on inside > them and around them, constantly. That's why meditation is needed. > The point of this simple > technique is that there is a value in not doing so. Sure. I don't disgard it at all. But whatever Vac said about TM is applicable there also. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
