Buck: > Certainly a human life is a terrible > potential to waste in non-meditation. > Or, I guess it all depends on how you can define 'meditation'. According to MMY, meditation is based on thinking.
Meditation means simply 'to think things over'. If so, then everyone meditates. There's probably not a person on the planet who doesn't pause once or twice a day to take stock of their own mind contents. And, we're all transcending - even without a specific technique! TM is just a more direct angle of diving. But, the question is: do you enjoy? Recently, I sat with Jokusho Kwong, the roshi of the Sononma Zen Center, when I visited my daughter in Santa Rosa. I've known the roshi since the days when I sat with Suzuki at the San Francisco Zen Center. I know that up in northern California lots of people practice various types of 'zen' meditation. Sonoma Mountain Zen Center: http://www.smzc.net/ Based on what Kwong said, I would say that at least HALF of the northern state of California meditates in one form or another! Go figure. meditation noun 1 to think calm thoughts in order to relax or as a religious activity: Sophie meditates for 20 minutes every day. 2 to think seriously about something for a long time: He meditated on the consequences of his decision. Source: Cambridge University Dictionary: http://tinyurl.com/dz5ut2
