On Apr 18, 2006, at 6:29 PM, sparaig 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.
> >
>
> So you think its a good thing to have this as a goal?


Being stuck in a paradigm? I wouldn't recommend getting stuck in *any  
thing*.


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