--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Quotes, please, from Lawson's and/or my posts in > which we jump through hoops trying to tell everyone > that Maharishi didn't mean what he said. >
What I said a few posts back was that if MMY said what Vaj claimed, then he was wrong. One thing I've been thinking about is Vaj's claim that the average (I guess) Samtha meditation technique is "just like TM" but that the meditator goes on to better things in the Buddhist tradition. I've no doubt that originally these techniques were dyhan techniques just as TM is. I would be greatly surprised if there aren't Buddhist teachers who don't teach them "properly" ala TM even today. HOWEVER, given that one of the more famous meditation teachers' descriptio nof them ends with an admonishment to "stay vigilent" in order to not fall asleep or "get lost in thoughts," it seems obvious that most Buddhist meditation teachers don't get it. Likewise, even if they DO "get it," they don't realize what they have is important because the measures of the Buddhist monks practicing "advainced" meditation techniques for up to 50,000 hours over their lifetimes, show little-to-no EEG changes similar to what is found during samadhi-during-TM OR 24/7 samadhi outside TM. If they HAD established samadhi, it would still show up and it doesn't. They've failed to kill the Buddha, IMHO, and have mistaken some form of induced witnessing for thereal thing, which happens spontaneously. How could it happen otherwise? As the thalamus reduces in activity, you become less and less full of thoughts. Intention is just another thought so intention to have samadhi is contra-samadhi. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
