--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 18, 2006, at 5:30 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > I suspect that what you call transcending is not the > > > > same as what TMers call transcending. Given that TMers > > > > don't report transcending > > > > during TM until after-the-fact, this is hardly surprising... > > > > > > It'd probably depend on what *style* of shamatha you > > > were doing. For ex. there is a form of shamatha that > > > traces the seed syllable back to > > > it's source--silence--much like TM. > > > > TM *can* do this. Is this the goal of this style of > > meditation, or is it merely a description of an > > idealized outcome? > > It's just one of the styles of shamatha, that's all--the > beginning part. > > Don't get so stuck in your paradigm.
Good advice, but do you honestly think it's possible? >From my point of view, Lawson represents an almost- perfect example of the "TM paradigm," which is based on the assumption that the TM view of things and descrip- tion of things is correct, and that any view or description that differs from that is by definition incorrect. In my opinion that's really how TMers are taught to think, both about the mechanics of meditation and about the scientific measurements thereof. Being "stuck in their paradigm" is perceived as a *good* thing and is rewarded in the TMO by "strokes." How likely is it that, after decades of this kind of reinforcement, someone is open to the possibility of other paradigms being valid? 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/
