[FairfieldLife] Re: American Buddhists celebrate no self

2014-05-04 Thread salyavin808
Speaking purely for myself, TM is different to other forms of meditation but the effects of the other types my be be more useful if you have the sort of health issues that TM claims (but fails) to address. And may be more useful anyway.. Mindfulness can be highly beneficial for anxiety and

[FairfieldLife] Re: American Buddhists celebrate no self

2014-05-04 Thread LEnglish5
Stanford research paper? Do you mean the recent AHRQ meta-analysis of the effects of meditation on anxiety? I responded in the comment section to the Scientific American blog entry about it: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-meditation-overrated/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: American Buddhists celebrate no self

2014-05-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 5/4/2014 12:05 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: Eckhart Tolle does not practice meditation, in fact he claims that meditation can be a hindrance to awakening. The dictionary term meditation means simply to think things over. Based on this definition, everyone who is awake and thinks about

[FairfieldLife] Re: American Buddhists celebrate no self

2014-05-03 Thread anartaxius
Lawson, was this a tangential reply to me? I am not a former TMer, I still practice TM. Do you know of any research that compares the EEG of TMers in unity and say, Buddhists who are in unity? Since both these traditions have produced people with the unity experience, and they express

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: American Buddhists celebrate no self

2014-05-03 Thread Michael Jackson
Eckhart Tolle does not practice meditation, in fact he claims that meditation can be a hindrance to awakening. On Sun, 5/4/14, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: American Buddhists celebrate no self