--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@...> wrote: > > > Samaadhi: sam+aa+dhi (putting together) is cognate with the English > word "synthesis": Latin, collection, from Greek sunthesis, from > Suntithenai, to put together: sun-, syn- + tithenai, to put. > > However in a Buddhist context, samadhi signifies a stable and unified > state of attention in the sense of Pali "citta-ekagratta" (grasping only > one-object of attention). This is why in Buddhist meditation practice, > samadhi precedes dhyana, which is the reverse of the definition in the > samyama section of the Yoga Sutra-s (YS 3.3). > > Scholars debate this but the definition-sequence in the Pali Suttas may > be the older of the two sets. >
Well, in YS, samaadhi-pariNaama (Taimni: s-transformation, III 11) is mentioned before ekaagrataa-pariNaama (one-pointedness-transformation, III 12): sarvaarthataikaagratayoH (sarvaarthaa-ekaagrata[a]_yoH [abl/gen. dual])kSayodayau (kSaya-udaya_u [nom. dual]) chittasya samaadhipariNaamaH .. 11.. (kSaya of sarvaarthataa [and] udaya of ekaagrataa [is] samaadhi-pariNaama of c[h]itta.) tataH punaH shaantoditau tulyapratyayau chittasyaikaagrataapariNaamaH .. 12.. (then again, when shaanta-pratyaya [and] udita-pratyaya [are] tulya[-s, heh] [exactly similar] [that is called] ekaagrataa-pariNaama of c[h]itta??[1]) 1. In TM, when mantra has "disappeared"??
