--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > >> > > So your argument appears primarily to be a scholarly a sort of > > comparative, historical view of meditation methods. Interesting, > > but of no value to me in any practical sense. > > If it was a scholarly comparative, etc. view, it might have less > value. It's interesting I see this same comment when TM folks are > confronted with others with more experience. They're often very > reactive for some reason to people experientially familiar with the > tradition(s) they claim to be from. I do think the scholarly POV is > quite worthwhile, but I also, for example have found it valuable to > find out what that gap was in my awareness during my TM practice and > why my breath stopped. It was even more interesting to then be able > to be guided beyond that in an authentic way to the next steps. It > was amazing to me (but obviously much less so to you) that there was > a record and tradition of others who had not only had experienced the > same thing, but that they had been repeating this simple process of > exploration and unfoldment for so long, so successfully. It was > amazing that they had a vocabulary for all this. >
So you have gained some intellectual satisfaction. Still, you continue to divert from the original question -- What practical benefits in daily life in the realm of improved thinking and cognitive function, improved body / health function, improved social behavior? Its your perogative to punt -- but I assume that would men you have no such benefits and diversion and deflection are the best that you can come up with.
