authfriend wrote: > That scripture quote is meaningless without context, > Rick, as I've pointed out before. > > And as I recently posted, Charlie Donahue is quoted > as saying TM doesn't even involve *intent* (which is > my experience, and obviously Lawson's as well). > > There's some kind of subtle semantic finagling going > on here that serves to confuse rather than to clarify. > That's been my experience as well - often the 'best' meditations are those that come of themselves involving no volition or effort of any kind.
On Dogen: In referring to zazen, Do-gen is most often referring specifically to shikantaza, roughly translatable as "nothing but precisely sitting", which is a kind of sitting meditation in which the meditator sits "in a state of brightly alert attention that is free of thoughts, directed to no object, and attached to no particular content." Dogen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogen
