On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:13 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > --- 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?
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