On Apr 18, 2006, at 12:35 PM, authfriend wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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. > > That wasn't the question. Lawson specified that it > was one of the styles. He's asking if what you > describe is (a) the *goal* of this style, or (b) > a potential outcome. > > In other words, is "tracing the seed syllable back to > its source" a PREscription, or a DEscription? > > > Don't get so stuck in your paradigm. > > Why are you so reluctant to answer the queston? It's > a pretty simple one.
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