--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <wg...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> >
> > Robert wrote:
> > > It is a delicate process to transcend thought...that is the reason for
> > > the checking, etc...
> > > Because unless we have the experience of transcending thought, then we
> > > can think that repeating a mantra, or chanting a mantra, is going to get
> > > you there...but then you have missed the point.
> > > The mantra starts out like 'any other thought', but is used as a vehicle
> > > to transcend, so it begins the process of noticing something about the
> > > thinking process, the act of experiencing more subltle levels of
> > > thinking, and then transcending the thinking process itself.
> > > All of this is very subtle and delicate, which is why it has been so
> > > misunderstood...
> > > It's not like using a hammer to pound a nail...which would be more akin
> > > to the techniques of western thinking...politically speaking.
> > > R.G.
> > The process in other traditions is called "samadhi." "Transcending
> > thought" is just a "westernization" of the same thing avoiding the
> > Sanskrit term. TM is certainly not unique in producing samadhi. ;-)
>
Isn't that more specifically /asaMprajñaata-samaadhi/?
vitarka-vicaara-aananda-asmitaa-anugamaat saMprajñaataH
*viraama-pratyaya-abhyaasa-puurvaH saMskaara-sheSo 'nyaH*
('nyaH = anyaH = the other = not-saMprajñaataH =
a-saMprajñaataH samaadhiH)
