--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 15, 2006, at 9:45 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Apr 14, 2006, at 8:13 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hiya: > > > > > > > > > > I recently received this from the Shamatha Project, which > > will be a > > > > > rather sophisticated look at 'transcendence style meditation' > > using > > > > > all the methodologies in current brain research. You also > > might be > > > > > interested in the Neuroscientists who are spearheading the > > Mind and > > > > > Life Project: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.investigatingthemind.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > Of course, there's no evidence that "transcendence style > > meditation" > > > > has anything to do with TM. > > > > > > TM *is* a basic form of Shamatha (transcendence style meditation) > > > using a mantra. There are hundreds of different types of of > > shamatha. > > > > > > > That might be, but the site I quoted seemed to almost "get" TM and > > then wandered off into > > the ozone. It will be interesting to see if the physiological > > changes are the same for > > whatever "transcendence style meditation" technique they test. > > I suggest you read "The Buddhist Tradition of Samatha: Methods for > Refining and Examining Consciousness." Journal of Consciousness > Studies, 6, No. 2-3, 1999. pp. 175-187. It is available at: > > http://alanwallace.org/Wallace-Samatha.pdf > > You'll see the model of meditation does go quite a bit deeper and > further, so one would expect the results will be different. >
Funny, I was just thinking, as I read it, that it doesn't go very deep at all, so one would expect the results to be different... 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/
